Year 7 2020-2021 English a Midsummer Night's Dream Student

Student Name: ______

Year 7 2020-2021 English A Midsummer Night’s Dream Student Workbook

This workbook has been created to follow the English Mastery 4Hr Traditional Curriculum. This workbook is an optional supplement and should not replace the standard English Mastery resources. It is specifically designed to provide consistency of learning, should any students find their learning interrupted. Due to the nature of the format – some deviations have been made from the EM Lesson ppts. These have been made of necessity and for clarity.

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Workbook This workbook was designed to function primarily as an independent resource. However, it can be – and is recommended to be – used in the classroom, alongside the lessons, where it can become a valuable tool for quality learning and teaching. It contains all the information provided in the Mastery lessons, the tasks that the students are required to complete and the writing space to complete these tasks. However, as this workbook was created first and foremost in the event that students would be forced to work without a teacher, the following elements were heavily factored into its design:

1. Independence – trying to ensure that students could work through the workbook and understand as much of the content as possible on their own. This meant that certain changes had to be made to some lessons or tasks that relied too heavily on the teacher.

2. Clarity – as the teacher would presumably not be there to clarify what the students need to do, effort was put in to ensure the tasks and the expectations are as clear as possible.

At the same time, most information and tasks from the Mastery lessons have been transferred in the workbook more or less as they appear in the lessons themselves. There are some small changes that were added as a result of my own experience teaching this unit. These additions are mainly: questions added when annotating an image or a quotation to help the students find their way to the correct answer, some questions or tasks rephrased to ensure clarity or broken down into several steps and expected length of answers mentioned for the extended writing tasks. General information about the workbook: ➢ It includes all the resources found in the student booklet, embedded in the lessons as needed; ➢ It includes the fortnightly quizzes in the order in which they appear in the lessons; ➢ It includes the ‘Exit Quiz’ at the end of the lessons; ➢ It provides students with the space to write down their answers to all tasks. Where it was felt necessary, some ‘extra writing space’ was introduced; ➢ All new words are introduced in vocabulary boxes. ➢ It includes all the passages from the play that the students are required to read. General differences between the Mastery lessons and the workbook: ➢ Each reading section is followed by a comprehension task. Most of these ask the students to answer questions based on what they read. When there were no such questions or no comprehension task in the Mastery lesson, these were added in, sometimes using the questions from the Foundation pathway; ➢ All tasks or questions labelled as ‘Discuss’ were made into written tasks in the workbook; ➢ Quotation Hunter resource was integrated within the lessons, not as a separate resource at the end of the booklet.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 1

Mastery Content:

• Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan era • Shakespeare was born in 1564 • He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon • His family were affluent and sent him to a good school • Shakespeare had to work very hard at school and studied about twice as much as students do today

Do Now: List at least three things you know about William Shakespeare. Use the images to guide you.

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Extension: What other plays did William Shakespeare write apart from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream? See how many you can name.

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This term, we will be reading a play called ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by William Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan Era.

• The Elizabethan Era is the period in English history from 1558 –1603 when Queen Elizabeth 1 was in charge of England.

• ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is an Elizabethan play because it was written in 1595.

• Shakespeare wrote some plays after Elizabeth 1 died. These were written in a different era.

Quick Task: Answer the following question in full sentences. Shakespeare mainly wrote in the Elizabethan era. What era did Charles Dickens write in? ______

Task: Put the following periods of history in order, starting with the oldest:

Dinosaurs walked the earth Your lifetime World War 2

Romans Ancient Egypt The Victorian Era The Elizabethan Era

Oldest Most recent

Let’s find out about ‘Shakespeare’s Early Life’. Read the text below and answer the questions that follow. Shakespeare’s Early Life

Shakespeare is the most famous and popular writer in the English language. People have read, studied and enjoyed his plays for over 400 years. You might already know some of them: he wrote ‘Romeo and Juliet’, ‘Hamlet’, and ‘Othello’, as well as many others. His plays are funny, scary, sad and exciting, and many people praise Shakespeare for his original and imaginative stories and characters. But Shakespeare was actually a bit of a thief! He took many of his ideas from the stories he studied when he was at school. Clearly he was paying attention in lessons!

This term, you are going to study one of Shakespeare’s funniest plays. It’s called A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Before we start to read it and act it out, we are going to learn a bit about Shakespeare’s life and education, so we can find out what gave A scene from him the idea to write this play. ‘Romeo and Juliet’, one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Shakespeare’s birth and early childhood

No one knows the exact date Shakespeare was born as birth records weren’t kept that long ago. However, we think he was born on 23 April 1564. That’s over 450 years ago! It’s also nearly 250 years before Charles Dickens was born. William Shakespeare’s father was John Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s father a glove maker, and his mother was Mary Arden, who was made gloves which rich people would pay the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. a lot of money for.

He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, a town in the middle of England about 22 miles away from Birmingham. When Shakespeare was born in 1564, the ruler in charge of England was Queen Elizabeth I. Because of this, we call this time in history the Elizabethan era.

Elizabeth 1 who ruled England during the Elizabethan era.

Shakespeare’s education

Like his birth, there are no records of exactly where Shakespeare went to school. However, we think he probably went to a grammar school called the King’s New School in Stratford-upon-Avon. The school is still open today and continues to call itself ‘Shakespeare’s School’.

In Elizabethan England, grammar schools were very strict, and students had to work hard. The school day would usually start at six in the morning and continue to five in the evening! During the winter, school days were shorter, but they still ran from seven to four. They had to go to school six days a week, so students spent around 2,000 hours a year at school. That’s twice the amount of time students spend at school today! Next lesson we will find out what Shakespeare learnt at school.

Warwickshire, the King’s New School, the grammar school Shakespeare county Shakespeare attended. grew up in.

Task: Answer the following questions in full sentences.

1. When was Shakespeare alive?

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2. What do we know about Shakespeare’s birth?

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3. What was Shakespeare’s school probably like?

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Main Task: Write one paragraph to answer the question below. This needs to be between 5-8 sentences.

Who was William Shakespeare?

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❑ Check 1: Does Check 2: Does Check 3: Do all Check 4: Have every sentence every sentence names start with a you spelt names start with a end with a full capital letter? correctly? e.g. capital letter? stop? Shakespeare

Exit Quiz

Which statements about Shakespeare’s early life are correct?

a) Shakespeare’s mother was called Elizabeth.

b) Shakespeare spent more time at school than pupils today.

c) Shakespeare lived in the Victorian Era.

d) Shakespeare’s family was very poor.

e) Shakespeare’s family was affluent.

Extension: Turn the incorrect answers into correct answers.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 2

Mastery Content:

• Shakespeare studied ancient Greek and Roman myths and history at school • The ancient Greeks and Romans lived about 2,500 years ago • A Midsummer Night’s Dream is set in ancient Athens • Shakespeare set A Midsummer Night’s Dream hundreds of years before the time he was writing • Ancient Athens was cultural and ordered but could also be severe.

Do Now: List at least four things you know about Shakespeare’s early life.

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Task: Which stories are represented in the images below? Write down as many as you recognise.

Percy Jackson and ______

the Lightning Thief ______

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Extension: What do these images have in common?

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Today, we are going to find out more about Shakespeare’s education.

Task: Read the text called ‘Life in Ancient Athens’ and answer the questions that follow.

Life in Ancient Athens

What did Shakespeare learn at school?

We know that Shakespeare went to a grammar school where students studied for very long hours. They studied a lot of maths, including arithmetic, algebra and geometry and they had an extensive religious education. Shakespeare’s grammar school Shakespeare would also have learnt a lot about ancient Greece and Rome when he was at school. The ancient Greeks and Romans lived about two thousand years before Shakespeare was even born. The Elizabethans really admired the ancient Greeks and Romans, even though they lived such a long time ago. The Elizabethans made their children learn about the ancient Greeks and Romans in school.

Who were the ancient Greeks?

The ancient Greeks and Romans were famous for lots of things. They had lots of great writers who wrote wonderful stories. The stories that they wrote about are not always true. They are myths. Myths are ancient stories about magical and fantastical events. Greek and Roman myths are still popular today. Lots of them have been turned into films. For example, you might have seen the films ‘Hercules’, ‘Troy’, ‘300’, ‘Clash of Theseus battling the the Titans’, ‘Immortals’ or ‘Percy Jackson and the minotaur in a famous myth Olympians’. All of these films are based on Greek and from Ancient Greece. Roman myths.

As well as important writers, they had clever mathematicians who made important discoveries. They had amazing artists who made striking pots. These pots often show everyday people creating things as a pastime. They thought that education was very important. In ancient Greece, men would regularly meet in grand buildings to discuss Philosophy. A part of a painting which shows the famous mathematician, Pythagoras, writing down his theories.

What was life like for people living in ancient Greece?

Women were generally not educated and were expected to obey men. Society was very ordered and there were very harsh punishments for people who broke the rules. They put some criminals in a bronze statue of a bull and lit a fire underneath the statue so that the person burned to death! The bronze bull used to burn people to death.

How did the ancient Greeks influence Shakespeare?

Shakespeare must have paid attention when he was at school, because he was influenced by the writers of ancient Greece and Rome. Some of Shakespeare’s plays are about real things that happened in ancient Greece and Rome and some of his plays are about myths from Greece and Rome.

His play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in one of the most famous ancient Greek cities called Athens. It was known all around the world for its wealth and grand buildings. The people who lived in Athens were called ‘Athenians’. When we read the play, you will be able to see how Shakespeare presents Athenians and their culture.

Ancient Athens

Glossary

Ancient Greece and Rome - Two famous places that were very important about 2500 years ago. influence - When someone has a big impact on someone else. myths – Ancient stories about magical and fantastical events.

Task: Answer the following questions in full sentences.

1. In which era did Shakespeare go to school?

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2. What talents and skills are the ancient Greeks famous for?

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3. How were people in ancient Greece treated if they broke the law?

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4. Shakespeare wrote ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in 1595. When did he set it?

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Extension: What other examples can you think of where a writer has written about a different time to the one they live in?

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Here are some other stories which happen in a different time to when they were written.

'Fantastic Beasts and ‘War Horse’ was written ‘Frozen’ was made in Where to Find Them' was in 2007, but the story 2013, but the events of released in 2016, but the happens from 1912- the story happen a long events of the story take 1918 during World War 1 time ago during the place in 1926. 1840s.

Vocabulary: severe

Severe: If something is severe, it is very strict or harsh.

Examples: Look at how these sentences use the word severe:

1. Oliver was given a severe punishment for asking for more food.

2. The man went outside despite the severe weather conditions.

3. The boy was crying, but his injury didn’t look very severe to me.

Practice task: In what way(s) was ancient Athens severe? Look in the reading from earlier in the lesson to find the answer.

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Comprehension task: Look at the images below. Write down how each image relates to what you have read about ancient Athens, the setting for ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Use the questions to help you.

Model: 1. What was Athens known for around the world?

______Greek and Roman myths ______have been turned into ______popular films. ______

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2. How were people who 3. How were women treated differently broke the rules punished than men in ancient Athens? in ancient Greece?

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Comprehension task: Decide which of the events below are myths and which are histories. Circle myth or history next to each one.

Remember, a myth is a fantastical story. History is true.

1. A woman is turned into a spider after she annoys a goddess. Myth/history

2. The story of Hercules has been made into many films. Myth/history

3. The ancient Greeks fought many battles. Myth/history 4. Hercules is threatened by a dog with three heads. Myth/history 5. Athens was an important city in ancient Greece with lots of beautiful buildings. Myth/history 6. The ancient Greeks and Romans lived about 2,000 years before Shakespeare. Myth/history 7. Shakespeare set ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in ancient Athens, 2000 years before he lived. Myth/history 8. A man annoys a god so much that his head is turned into a donkey’s head. Myth/history

Exit Quiz

Which statement is correct? Circle the correct answer.

a) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in Athens at the time Shakespeare

was writing. b) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in England about 2,500 years ago. c) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in Athens about 2,500 years ago. d) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in England at the time Shakespeare was writing. e) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in Rome about 2,000 years ago.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 3

Mastery Content:

• Groundlings were poor people that watched plays in Elizabethan England • Groundlings would have horrible jobs, including shifting waste across the city • The poor enjoyed bear baiting, gambling and the theatre for entertainment • There was a large difference between the rich and poor in Elizabethan England • Conditions were unsanitary in large towns and cities

Do Now: Put these periods of history in the correct order, from the one furthest back to the most recent.

Victorian Elizabethan Ancient Rome Today England England

Ancient Greece

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Furthest ______Most recent back ______

Extension: Which period of history is ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ set in? What was this period like?

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A Day in the Life of a Groundling

Task: Read the transcript from the audio clip describing a day in the life of a groundling and complete the worksheet that follows.

Tip: the words in bold are explained in the glossary.

A Day in the Life of a Groundling: Transcript

I woke up at 6 from the noise of bells ringing outside – I was late for work! I work as a scullion on the other side of town, and I’d already been late twice that week. I didn’t have time to have something to eat – normally some old bread and cheese – so I was starving by the time I got to work.

The cook was not pleased to see me. He knew I was late, and he gave me a real telling-off for being late again. He said that today was my final chance – if I was late once more he’d kick me out! That was the last thing I needed – I only earned a penny a day as it was, so losing this job would be a disaster. I got working immediately, cleaning all the pots and pans and plates from breakfast and washing the floor. The estate I work on is huge and there’s a large family living here. They’re known for miles around for being gluttons, so they get through a lot of food! They can afford it, so they can eat what they like. But it means more washing and cleaning for me!

By eleven o’clock I could barely stand – that’s how hungry I was. I saw the page come down and start bringing all the delicious food for lunch up to the lords – stewed trout, boiled pigeons, calves tongues – it all looked so good! There was nothing for it. I waited until the cook has his back turned, then I tried to sneak some off the plate and into my empty stomach. But I wasn’t careful enough. “Oi! What d’ya fink yer doin?” cook yelled. Then, faster than you can peel a carrot, he picked up a pan and threw it straight at my face. It hit me right in the mouth and my two front teeth smashed immediately, and blood started gushing everywhere. “Get out of here! Don’t you come back!” cook screamed. I ran out as fast as I could, looking for my teeth on the floor as I went.

It hadn’t been a great morning, but I knew I had to get to the barber quickly to get my teeth looked at. I’d been to the barber before, but that was just for the occasional haircut, maybe around Christmas when I might have had a little more

23 money. I’d seen the barber work on people’s teeth before, and it looked terrible. He looked like he was just making it up as he went along, if I’m honest, but I didn’t really have much else of a choice, did I?

An hour, a lot of screaming, a half gallon of ale, and three shillings (nearly all of my savings!) later, I left the barber. After the most miserable morning of my life, I decided what I really needed was some entertainment. I headed over the Thames to Southwark, which is where you have to go to have a good time in London. I decided to see a play first, and luckily it was a comedy rather than a tragedy. I don’t think I could’ve stood seeing a miserable play, and the one I saw was pretty ridiculous, with a fairy king and queen, and a talking donkey. I might be ugly with my new horrible teeth, but at least I don’t have donkey’s head!

After some bear baiting and a cock fight, I decided to go home. It was getting dark, and I wasn’t looking forward to having to find a new job in the morning. I doubted anyone would employ me – I’m 33, and far, far too old to think about training in a new job. If I’m lucky, I might live to 50, but I’ll have to avoid the plague, and dysentery, and goodness knows how many other unknown sicknesses. But just as I was having these terrible thoughts, I was overwhelmed by the most awful smell. It was truly unbelievable and indescribable. “Watch out!” a voice cried behind me. “Gong Farmer coming through!”

“Wait a second,” I rasped. “Wait!” I took the man’s shoulders in my hands. “Have you got any work? I’ve just lost my job and I’m looking for something to do. I hate early mornings, and I know you only work at night…”

“We’ve always got work going as a Gong Farmer. Not too many people want to wander the streets at night up to their necks in urine and excrement and cart it around the city! When can you start?”

I thought for a moment, and realised I had nothing better to do. “Pass me that bucket. I’ll get started tonight!”

Glossary: Word Meaning Scullion Kitchen helper – washes and cleans. Estate A large house, usually with a lot of outside space too. Glutton A greedy person who eats lots. Page A young assistant – similar to a butler. Barber Different to today’s meaning – an Elizabethan barber would also perform surgery, such as removing teeth (but he would still cut hair as well!) Gallon About 4.5 litres Shillings A old unit of money. Thames The large river in London. Southwark A borough of London on the south of the Thames.

Bear baiting Dogs fight against a chained bear. People watching bet on who will win – the dogs or the bear. Plague a vicious disease which killed thousands throughout the Elizabethan era. Dysentery A severe disease which causes problems with the digestive system – usually fatal in Elizabethan England.

Gong Farmer Someone who moves excrement from the built up areas of the city to lesser- populated areas.

Task: Complete the worksheet below with notes on the following topics:

• Jobs

• Food

• Health

• Entertainment

Life as a groundling - worksheet

Jobs: What kinds of work would people do?

Food: What would people eat? Did all people eat the same food?

Health: How were people treated for illnesses? What kinds of illness were common?

Entertainment: What did people do to have fun?

Vocabulary practice: severe

A word we looked at last lesson is severe.

If something is severe, it is very strict or harsh.

Which of these statements show that life was severe for some people living in the Elizabethan era?

A. I woke up at 6 from the noise of bells ringing outside.

B. …they get through a lot of food! They can afford it, so they can eat what they like. But it means more washing and cleaning for me!

C. Then, faster than you can peel a carrot, he picked up a pan and threw it straight at my face.

Let’s clarify what a groundling is. Read the information below.

A groundling was a person who visited the Globe Theatre in the early 17th century and was too poor to pay to be able to sit on one of the three levels of the theatre. By paying one penny, they could stand in ‘the pit’, also called ‘the yard’, just below the stage to watch the play. The pit didn’t have a roof. This meant that the groundlings would get wet if it rained during a play. Standing in the pit was uncomfortable, and people were usually packed in tightly. The groundlings were commoners who were also referred to as ‘stinkards’ or ‘penny-stinkers’.

Groundlings

Main Task: Write two paragraphs that answer the question below. Each paragraph must be between 5 and 8 sentences long.

What was life like for a groundling in Elizabethan London?

Tip: You can write about: Jobs, Health, Food or Entertainment.

Paragraph 1:

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❑ Check 1: Are Check 2: Does Check 3: Does Check 4: Have there any run-on each sentence each proper you spelt sentences? begin with a noun begin with a ‘groundling’ and ❑ capital and end capital? ‘Elizabethan’ with a full stop? correctly?

Extra writing space:

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Exit Quiz

Which statement is correct? Circle the correct answer.

a) In the Elizabethan era, life was easy for poor people. b) In the Elizabethan era, only rich people could afford to go to the theatre. c) In the Elizabethan era, you could go to the theatre for free if you were a groundling. d) In the Elizabethan era, the people who bought the cheapest tickets to the theatre were called groundlings. e) In the Elizabethan era, poor people could afford to go to the theatre, but they didn’t bother because only rich people could understand what was going on.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 4

Mastery Content:

• Plays are different to prose and novels • Shakespeare’s plays were held at the Globe Theatre in London • The characters of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' • The plot of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Do Now: The statements below relate to either plays or novels. Order each statement into the correct column.

a) Divided into b) Are written c) Written by a d) About two to chapters for readers playwright four hours long

e) Only contain f) Contain speech g) Divided into speech and description acts and scenes

speech h) Are written for i) Give stage j) Written by actors to speak directions an author aloud

Novelsscenes Plays

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Extension: Can you think of any features that apply to both plays and novels?

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We have already looked at the life of a poor person in the Elizabethan era. We have found out that poor people went to the theatre a lot and were known as groundlings.

To find out more about what a trip to the theatre would have been like in the Elizabethan era, follow the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=D1rbtHchv1g

We are going to read a play written by William Shakespeare.

He wrote this play over 400 years ago. It is such a good play that it is still being performed and watched today! It is one of Shakespeare's comedies and is very funny to read, watch and act!

Let’s meet some of the characters in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

Theseus and Hippolyta

Thee–see–us and Hip-o-li-ter

Theseus is the powerful king of Athens.

He is looking forward to marrying Hippolyta, queen of the fierce Amazonian warriors.

Egeus

Ee–jee–us

Egeus is a rich man. He knows King Theseus of Athens.

He wants to complain about his daughter, Hermia. He wants her to marry a man called Demetrius. She wants to marry the man she loves, Lysander.

Demetrius Lysander Hermia Dee–me–tree– Lie–sand–er Her–me–ah us us us

Love each other

Thinks he should

marry Hermia

Now let’s find out what happens in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

To do this, we’re going to ‘Whoosh’ through the entire play!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Part 1: Athens

Over 2500 years ago in the beautiful city of Athens, lived the strong, brave King Theseus. He was looking forward to marrying the beautiful and powerful Hippolyta in four days’ time. The entire city (everyone cheers) cheered when they heard about the wedding.

But there was a problem in Athens. Egeus, one of the king’s friends, had come to Theseus to complain about his daughter. His daughter, called Hermia, was refusing to marry Demetrius (who her father wanted her to marry) because she was in love with Lysander. Egeus is angered by this.

Egeus said, ‘Hermia is my daughter, so she must obey my wishes. If she does not agree to marry Demetrius, I demand that she and Lysander be executed!’

The crowd gasped. (ALL gasp) They could not believe what they were hearing!

King Theseus shook his head. ‘You know our laws,’ he said. ‘Hermia, if you do not agree to marry Demetrius, you and Lysander will both be killed.’

Quick Task for Part 1: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. Who is the king of Athens?

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2. Who is Egeus complaining about?

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3. Who does he want his daughter to marry?

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4. Who does he not like?

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5. What is going to happen to Hermia and Lysander?

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Part 2: Athens at night

Later, Lysander and Hermia met under the stars to discuss their terrible situation.

‘What are we to do?’ sobbed Hermia. She had not stopped crying since the king had said she may be killed.

‘Do not worry, my love’ Lyasnder replied. ‘We will be ok. The course of true love never did run smooth!’

Lysander had a plan. He and Hermia would run far away where they could be happily married away from Athens and its laws.

Hermia stopped crying for the first time in hours. ‘Let’s run away tomorrow night,’ Hermia said. ‘But I must tell Helena of our plan. We have been best friends since we were babies in our mothers’ arms’.

Lysander and Hermia soon found Helena. They told her of their plan.

‘I shall be sad to see you go,’ Helena said.

Helena and Hermia hugged each other and tried not to cry, then Hermia and Lysander left quietly. Helena was afraid that she would be alone forever. She loved Demetrius, the man Hermia was meant to marry. But he did not love her back. She decided to tell Demetrius that Hermia and Lysander were running away. Perhaps he would be thankful for the information, and fall in love with her!

Quick Task for Part 2: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. What are Hermia and Lysander going to do?

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2. Who does Helena love?

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3. Who does Demetrius love?

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Part 3: Inside the magical forest

The woods outside of Athens were full of magical fairies. All of the trees and the wind sounded enchanted, and the night felt strange and mysterious. There was a huge argument taking place in the forest between the mighty King Oberon and the ferocious Queen Titania. The Queen had stolen a beautiful boy that Oberon wanted for himself to be his helper.

‘Give me that boy!’ Oberon demanded. But Titania wouldn’t give in easily.

‘Not for your fairy kingdom!’ she replied.

Quick Task for Part 3: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. Who are king and queen of the forest?

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2. Why are they arguing?

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Part 4: Inside the magical forest

Oberon had a plan. He called his mischievous servant Puck to help him. He told Puck to find him a magical flower – one that could be used to create a love potion. Oberon described it. It was a beautiful plant, ‘Before, it was as white as snow. Now it is purple as it has been wounded by love.’

Puck must look far and wide for this rare plant, and Oberon would use it to make Titania fall in love with a hideous beast. Oberon would then be able to blackmail Titania and only remove the spell if she hands over the boy.

Puck rushed off to try to find the powerful flower.

Just as Puck left, Oberon heard Helena and Demetrius walking through the forest.

Demetrius was being cruel to Helena: ‘I am sick when I look at you!’ he cried. But Helena was still desperately in love with Demetrius. ‘That just makes me love you more!’ she replied.

Oberon took pity on Helena. Puck returned with the love potion (hold up love potion). Oberon told Puck to put the love potion on the man from Athens so that he will fall in love with Helena. Puck ran off to find the man.

Quick Task for Part 4: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. Who is Oberon’s servant?

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2. What does Puck have to go and fetch?

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3. What will Oberon do with the love potion?

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4. How does Demetrius treat Helena?

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5. How is Oberon going to help Helena?

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Part 5: Inside the magical forest

But Puck made a terrible mistake. He found a man from Athens, but it was the wrong one! He found Lysander sleeping and put the love potion on him. Helena found Lysander and woke him up. Lysander fell madly in love with Helena! ‘Not Hermia, but Helena I love! I would run through fire for you!’

Lysander cried, and started chasing her through the forest. Helena ran away and had to rest. Oberon saw Lysander looking for Helena. Oberon realised that Puck had made a mistake and so decides to use the potion again. Oberon finds Demetrius and drops the potion into his eyes whilst he is sleeping. When Demetrius wakes, the first person he sees his Helena!

Demetrius to Helena: ‘O Helen, goddess, perfect, divine!’

Helena runs away from Lysander and Demetrius, because she thinks the two men are making fun of her, ‘O Hell! I see you are making fun of me for your own amusement.’

Quick Task for Part 5: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. Who was Puck meant to put the love potion on?

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2. Who did Puck actually put the love potion on?

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3. Who is Lysander in love with?

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4. Who does Oberon put the love potion on?

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5. Who is in love with Helena now?

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Part 6: Inside the magical forest

Puck watches a group of actors rehearsing a play in the forest. He thinks they are foolish and so concocts a plan. One of them – a man called Nick Bottom – stepped away from the rehearsal to change his costume. As he stepped away from the rest of the group, Puck put a spell on him, and turned his head into a donkey’s head!

‘Oh Bottom, what has happened to you?!’ the group shouted when they saw what had happened. They were all terrified and ran away.

Titania was sleeping nearby. Quickly, Puck used the love potion on her and pushed Bottom to where she was sleeping. She woke up, and fell instantly in love with Bottom, who still had the donkey’s head! ‘What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?!’ Titania said. ‘You are as clever as you are beautiful.’ Titania was madly in love with Bottom! Bottom could not believe his luck!

Quick Task for Part 6: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. What happened to Nick Bottom’s head?

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2. Who falls in love with him?

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Part 7: Inside the magical forest

Hermia found Helena. Hermia thought that Helena had stolen Lysander away from her. ‘You juggler! You thief of love!’ she shouted. Helena insulted her back: ‘You counterfeit, you puppet, you!’ Lysander and Demetrius were still under the influence of the love potion and were both in love with Helena. They began to fight each other for Helena’s love.

Oberon saw all of this and shook his head. This is not what he wanted to happen! He called Puck over and told him to lead them all far from each other and make them fall asleep. Puck did this, and then used a remedy to lift the love potion from Lysander’s eyes.

Quick Task for Part 7: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. Why is Hermia angry at Helena?

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2. Why did Lysander and Demetrius begin to fight with each other?

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3. Who does Oberon remove the love potion from?

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4. Which people are now in love?

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Part 8: Morning in the forest

Theseus and Egeus were walking through the forest. They found the lovers asleep on the ground and demanded to know what had happened. Egeus saw Hermia and Lysander, and demanded that they be killed for running away from Athens. But Demetrius did not love Hermia any more. He declared his love for Helena: ‘All the faith, the passion of my heart, The only person I want to look at, is Helena’, he said. The king saw that they were in love, and allowed the two couples to be married on the same day as he and Hippolyta.

They all lived happily ever after!

Quick Task for Part 8: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. Which couples end up in love?

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2. Is this a happy ending? Why or why not?

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3. Do you think Demetrius’ love is real? Why or why not?

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Comprehension task: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is a comedy. Now that you know the plot of the whole play, answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. What was the funniest moment of the play?

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2. What was the most serious moment of the play?

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3. Which character was the funniest?

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4. Which scene of the play are you looking forward to seeing in more detail?

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5. What ideas about love do you think Shakespeare was trying to demonstrate in his play?

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AMND Name: Date: Quiz Score Fortnightly Quiz T1 ___ /10 When you have marked your quiz, put a tick next to the questions you got right and a cross next to the questions you got wrong. Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10

Numbers in brackets show the number of correct answers for each question. 1. Which statements about Shakespeare’s life are correct? (2) a) Shakespeare’s mother was called Elizabeth. b) Shakespeare spent more time at school than pupils today. c) Shakespeare lived in the Victorian era. d) Shakespeare’s family was very poor. e) Shakespeare’s family was affluent.

2. Which statements about Shakespeare’s schooling are correct? (2) a) Schools in Shakespeare’s time were very similar to schools today. b) Shakespeare was influenced by ancient Greek and Roman literature. c) Greek and Roman literature was influenced by Shakespeare. d) Shakespeare did not go to school. e) Shakespeare learnt things at school which he used when writing ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

3. Which statement is correct? (1) a) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in Athens at the time Shakespeare was writing. b) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in England about 2500 years ago c) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in Athens about 2500 years ago. d) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in England at the time Shakespeare was writing. e) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in Rome about 2000 years ago.

4. Which statements about ancient Athens and Elizabethan London are correct? (3) a) Life in ancient Athens was cultural and ordered. b) Rich people and poor people were treated equally in ancient Athens and Shakespeare’s London. c) Shakespeare lived in ancient Athens. d) Shakespeare lived hundreds of years after ancient Athens. e) There were severe punishments for criminals in ancient Athens.

5. Which statement about the Elizabethan era is correct? (1) a) In the Elizabethan era, life was easy for poor people. b) In the Elizabethan era, only rich people could afford to go to the theatre. c) In the Elizabethan era, you could go to the theatre for free if you were a grounding. d) In the Elizabethan era, the people who bought the cheapest tickets to the theatre were called groundlings. e) In the Elizabethan era, poor people could afford to go to the theatre but didn’t bother because only rich people could understand what was going on. 6. Which statements are correct? (2) a) Plays and novels have a number of differences. b) Plays are always set in the time they are written. c) Theseus and Hippolyta are two characters in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. d) Romeo and Juliet are characters in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. e) All of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in Athens.

7. Which statements are correct? (3) a) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in the future. b) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in the past. c) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in ancient Rome. d) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was influenced by stories from ancient Rome and Greece. e) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in ancient Athens.

8. Which statements about the opening of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ are correct? (3) a) Hermia is in love with Lysander. b) Egeus forbids his daughter to marry Lysander. c) Egeus is the king of Athens. d) Egeus wants his daughter to marry Demetrius. e) Egeus is going to marry Hippolyta.

9. Which statements about plays are correct? (3) a) Plays contain only speech and stage directions. b) Plays are usually about two to four hours long. c) Plays are divided into volumes and acts. d) Plays are divided into acts and scenes. e) Plays are divided into chapters and scenes.

10. Which statements about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ are correct? (3) a) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is a novel. b) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is a comedy. c) ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is set in Athens and in a magical forest. d) The magical creatures in the play are elves. e) The magical creatures in this play are fairies.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 5

Mastery Content:

• Egeus wants his daughter Hermia to marry Demetrius • He is angered by her love for another man, Lysander • Egeus will have Hermia killed for disobeying him

Do Now: Last lesson we looked at the plot of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

Write down everything you know about the characters Theseus and Hippolyta.

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Extension: How is a play different from a novel?

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We have already looked at information about William Shakespeare:

• Shakespeare was a famous writer, who lived during the Elizabethan era.

• His school taught him a lot about ancient Rome and Greece, so he often set his plays two thousand years before his lifetime.

Today, we are going to begin reading the original version of the play that he wrote over 400 years ago!

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ By William Shakespeare Reading: Let’s read Act 1, Scene 1, Egeus’s Complaint.

Egeus’ Complaint: Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 22 – 45

EGEUS 1. How is Egeus feeling? Full of vexation come I, with complaint vexation – anger, frustration

2. Who is he Against my child, my daughter Hermia. complaining about?

Stand forth Demetrius!– My noble lord, 3. Which man does he This man hath my consent to marry her. consent – permission like? 25

4. Which man does he Stand forth, Lysander!– And, my gracious duke, not like? This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child. Bewitched – put a spell on; Bosom – heart

Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes, Thou – you; hast – have; rhymes – love poetry And interchanged love-tokens with my child. interchanged – swapped Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung 30 feigning voice – a voice pretending to be honest With feigning voice verses of feigning love, And stolen the impression of her fantasy, bracelets…sweetmeats – gifts Lysander has given 5. What has Lysander With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gauds, conceits, Hermia to fool her into loving him done? Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats – prevailment – persuasion; unhardened – messengers inexperienced Of strong prevailment in unhardened youth; filched – stolen 35 due – owed With cunning hast thou filched my daughter's heart, Turned her obedience, which is due to me,

To stubborn harshness.

And, my gracious duke, Be it so – if; before – in front of 6. What should his Be it so she will not here, before your grace, Consent – agree daughter do? Consent to marry with Demetrius, 40

I beg the ancient privilege of Athens; ancient privilege – the traditional law of Athens As she is mine, I may dispose of her; dispose – get rid of 7. What does he want to happen to her if she Which shall be either to this gentleman doesn’t do what he Or to her death, according to our law wants? Immediately provided in that case. 45

Comprehension task: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. How is Egeus feeling?

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2. Who is he complaining about?

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3. Which man does he like?

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4. Which man does he not like?

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5. What has Lysander done?

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6. What does Egeus think Hermia should do?

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What does he want to happen to her if she doesn’t do what he wants? 57

Comprehension task continued:

7. What does he want to happen to her if she doesn’t do what he wants?

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Main Task: Write one paragraph to answer the question ‘Why do we feel sorry for Hermia at this point in the play?

Explain your ideas using as many words as you can from below.

audience victim sympathy malicious society brutal vulnerable severe

Why do we feel sorry for Hermia at this point in the play?

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Extra writing space:

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Exit Quiz

Which statements are correct?

a) Hermia is in love with Lysander.

b) Egeus forbids his daughter to marry Lysander.

c) Egeus is the king of Athens.

d) Egeus wants his daughter to marry Demetrius.

e) Egeus is going to marry Hippolyta.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 6

Mastery Content:

• Theseus is a strict leader • The law of ancient Athens is severe • Athens is a traditional, ordered and sometimes brutal place • How to create analytical paragraphs

Do Now: Egeus demands that his daughter marries Demetrius. If she refuses, she could be executed by Theseus.

Write a sentence to show what each character is thinking.

Lysander:

Demetrius: ______Hermia should ______do as her father ______says and marry

me ______

me says and metrius: marry me. metrius: Hermia should do as her father Hermia says and marry Egeus: should do me. ______as her Hermia: ______v father says me. ______and marry ______me. ______me ______me. me metrius: metrius: Hermia should Hermia should do as her father do as her father says and marry says and marry me. me.

me. me.

Egeus complained to Theseus, the King of Athens. Today, we are going to look at Theseus’s response in more detail.

Theseus

I have to uphold the law of Athens. Hermia must do as her father says or face the consequences.

Now, Hermia has to contend with her king as well as her father!

We are going to look at what Theseus says to Hermia.

Quick task: Answer the question below in 2-3 sentences:

How does Theseus think Hermia should treat her father?

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Let’s annotate a quotation that could help us answer this question better.

How does Theseus think Hermia should treat her father?

He says Hermia should obey her father and even worship him.

Theseus

To you your father should be as a god,

One that compos’d your beauties; yea, and one

To whom you are but as a form in wax

By him imprinted, and within his power

To leave the figure, or disfigure it.

Theseus tells Hermia she is like a Egeus has the power to change or figure Egeus has made out of wax. destroy Hermia if he wants to. She is just a copy of Egeus.

Task: Based on what Theseus has said, which words describe life in ancient Athens? Choose 4 of the words below and explain in one sentence why you chose each word to describe life in ancient Athens.

mysterious corrupt kind severe

ordered

brutal

traditional

disorganised

free

Your answer:

1. ______2. ______

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______4. ______

Last term, we looked at how to start an analytical paragraph with a correct topic sentence.

A correct topic sentence does three important things:

❑ It answers the question. ❑ It says something accurate. ❑ It focusses on one thing.

Let’s look at an example:

Question:

What kind of father is Egeus in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’?

Topic sentence:

In ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Egeus is a severe father.

Task: Write down at least two topic sentences to answer the question:

How does Shakespeare present ancient Athens in the first scene of the play?

Topic sentence 1:

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Topic sentence 2:

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Main Task: Write one analytical paragraph that answers the question below. Each paragraph must be between 5 and 8 sentences long.

How does Shakespeare present ancient Athens in the first scene of the play?

Paragraph 1:

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Exit Quiz

Which statement is correct? Circle the correct answer.

a) Ancient Athens was a chaotic place where people are killed for no reason.

b) Ancient Athens was a place where daughters had to obey their fathers.

c) Ancient Athens was a corrupt place, where people could break the rules to get what they want.

d) Ancient Athens was a place where breaking the rules did not have severe consequences.

e) Ancient Athens was a place where the ruler was prepared to be severe to keep order.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 7

Mastery Content:

• Lysander and Hermia plan to elope to his aunt’s house • Lysander’s quotation: ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ • Hermia and Lysander’s love faces conflict • Lysander’s and Hermia’s love can overcome the conflict they face

Do Now: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. Who is Hermia’s father?

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2. Who does Hermia’s father want her to marry?

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3. Who does Hermia want to marry?

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Extension: What could happen to Hermia if she disobeys her father?

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Quick Task: Answer the question below in 2-3 sentences:

What would you do if you were in Lysander and Hermia’s position?

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Lysander and Hermia decide to run away together to escape the severe law of ancient Athens.

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ By William Shakespeare Reading: Let’s read Act 1, Scene 1, ‘A good persuasion … There

will I stay for thee.’ to find out the details.

Act 1 Scene 1

Original text Translation LYSANDER LYSANDER A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia. That’s the right attitude. So, listen, Hermia. I have an aunt I have a widow aunt, a dowager who is a widow, who’s very rich Of great revenue, and she hath no child: and doesn’t have any children. From Athens is her house remote seven leagues; She lives about twenty miles And she respects me as her only son. from Athens, and she thinks of There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee; me as a son. I could marry you And to that place the sharp Athenian law there, gentle Hermia, where the Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then, strict laws of Athens can’t touch Steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night; us. So here’s the plan. If you And in the wood, a league without the town, love me, sneak out of your father’s house tomorrow night Where I did meet thee once with Helena, and meet me in the forest a To do observance to a morn of May, few miles outside of town. There will I stay for thee.

Comprehension task: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. Where are Hermia and Lysander going to run away to?

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2. What are they going to do there?

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3. Who are they going to run away to?

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4. When are they going to run away?

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Comprehension task continued:

5. Why do they have to run away?

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Hermia and Lysander are struggling with a conflict.

Vocabulary: conflict conflict: A conflict is a serious disagreement, battle or struggle between two sides or ideas.

Examples: Look at how these sentences use the word conflict:

1. The conflict soon became violent.

2. The teacher had to sort out a conflict in the playground.

3. Although she didn’t like conflict, she decided that she had to tell him how she felt.

Practice task: What conflicts have we seen in the play so far?

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Just before they plan to run away, Lysander reassures Hermia by saying the following:

journey or route proper, genuine love

‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’

go easily

Main Task: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. What does this quotation mean to you?

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Main Task continued: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

2. How does it apply to Hermia and Lysander?

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In order to be prepared for the assessment, you must make sure you write all the important quotations from A Midsummer Night’s Dream in one place, with all their annotations.

This will be done by using the Quotation Hunter resource – as we did last term for ‘Oliver Twist’.

Complete the ‘Notes’ section of the quotation hunter below on your own.

Quotation Hunter: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

What’s happening in the play at this Lysander and Hermia are point? planning to run away to get married.

Lysander Who is talking?

Hermia Who are they talking to?

Quotation (make sure you copy it exactly!) ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’

Notes on the quotation: What does this quotation tell us about love?

Exit Quiz

Which statement is correct? Circle the correct answer.

a) Hermia and Lysander leave Athens because they are bored.

b) Hermia and Lysander leave Athens because they will be able to get married outside the city.

c) Hermia and Lysander decide to stay in Athens because their parents live there.

d) Hermia and Lysander decide to leave Athens because they want to escape Athens’ laws.

e) Hermia and Lysander decide to stay in Athens because it is a safe city with good laws.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 8

Mastery Content:

• The action of the play moves from Athens to a fairy forest • The forest is ruled by the magical Oberon and Titania • They are arguing over a small boy that they both want to adopt • A soliloquy is where a character speaks to himself or herself or to the audience rather than to the other characters • How to annotate in detail

Do Now: Give three reasons why Lysander and Hermia have decided to run away from Athens.

Reason 1

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Reason 2

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Reason 3

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Extension: Complete this quotation and then explain in your own words what it means.

‘The course of true love…’

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The next scene is set in a forest near Athens.

Task: What are the main differences between a forest and Athens? Sort the words below into two groups.

Athens A forest

wild magical traditional severe natural ordered

mysterious dangerous

Vs.

The Fairy Forest

The forest that the lovers run away to is an ancient place which is well-known to the people of Athens.

However, what they don’t know is that the forest is home to the secret kingdom of the fairies...

Oberon Titania

King of the fairies Queen of the fairies

Oh–ber–on Tit–an–yah

Oberon Titania

Oberon is the king Titania is the proud of the fairies. He is and assertive a powerful and queen of the impressive leader. fairies. She will not He also has be intimidated by impressive magical anyone – powers. especially not Oberon!

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ By William Shakespeare Reading: Let’s read from Act 2, Scene 1: Oberon and Titania’s opening argument.

Act 2, Scene 1: Oberon and Titania meet in the magical forest

OBERON: Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania! Ill met – an unlucky meeting TITANIA: What, jealous Oberon? Fairies, skip hence. jealous – envious I have forsworn his bed and company. forsworn – refused OBERON: Why should Titania cross her Oberon? cross – disobey; I do but beg a little changeling boy but – only; little changeling boy – a small child Titania has to be my henchman. adopted TITANIA: Set your heart at henchman – helper rest. The fairy land buys not the child of me. buys not – does not buy; of – from OBERON: Give me that boy. TITANIA: Not for thy fairy kingdom. thy – your Fairies, away. Exit Titania and her train. train – followers, entourage OBERON: Well, go thy way. Thou shalt not from this grove Thou – you; shalt – will; grove – forest Till I torment thee for this injury. torment – torture, hurt

At the end of this scene, Oberon performs a soliloquy.

This is a speech in a play where the character speaks to himself or herself or to the people watching rather than to the other characters.

It means they can be totally honest, and can say what they are truly thinking and

feeling.

Here is Oberon’s soliloquy:

Exit Titania and her train.

OBERON: Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove ‘till I torment thee for this injury.

Quick task: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. How do we know this is a soliloquy?

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2. Why does Shakespeare make the final lines of this scene a soliloquy?

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Task: Go back to the script we just read on page 75 (Act 2, Scene 1: Oberon and Titania meet in the magical forest) and annotate it to show where Titania and Oberon are in conflict. Use the questions below to guide your annotations.

How could Oberon insulting Titania by calling

her ‘proud’ show they are in conflict?

How does this line show that Titania is How could Titania angry with Oberon? insulting Oberon by calling him ‘jealous’ show they are in conflict?

How is Oberon speaking to Titania Have they solved here? How does this their conflict by the show he is upset? end of the conversation?

What is Oberon threatening to do here? How does this add to their conflict?

AMND Name: Date: Quiz Score Fortnightly Quiz T2 ___ /10 When you have marked your quiz, put a tick next to the questions you got right and a cross next to the questions you got wrong. Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10

 ------Numbers in brackets show the number of correct answers for each question. 1. Which statements are correct? (2) a) Ancient Athens was a chaotic place where people were killed for no reason. b) Ancient Athens was a place where daughters had to obey their fathers. c) Ancient Athens was a corrupt place, where people broke the rules to get what they wanted. d) Ancient Athens was a place where breaking the rules did not have severe consequences. e) Ancient Athens was a place where the ruler was prepared to be severe to keep order.

2. Which statements about Egeus in Act 1 are correct? (3) a) Egeus is angry because his daughter won’t do what he tells her. b) Egeus is angry because the king won’t listen to him. c) Egeus would rather his daughter died than married someone he disapproved of. d) Egeus is a threatening character because he says that his daughter should be killed if she doesn’t do what he says. e) Egeus is a threatening character because he dislikes Lysander.

3. Here is a passage from Egeus’s complaint: With cunning hast thou filched my daughter’s heart, Turned her obedience, which is due to me, To stubborn harshness. What can we infer about Egeus from this passage? (3) a) Egeus thinks Lysander has manipulated his daughter. b) Egeus thinks Hermia should do what he says. c) Egeus thinks Lysander is a weak and unconvincing man. d) Lysander doesn’t really love Hermia. e) Hermia is not following her father’s orders any more.

4. Which statements are correct? (2) a) Hermia and Lysander leave Athens because they are bored. b) Hermia and Lysander leave Athens because they will be able to get married outside the city. c) Hermia and Lysander decide to stay in Athens because their parents live there. d) Hermia and Lysander decide to leave Athens because they want to escape Athens’s laws. e) Hermia and Lysander decide to stay in Athens because it is a safe city with good laws.

5. ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ What does this quotation tell us? (2) a) Lysander thinks there is no hope for his and Hermia’s relationship. b) Lysander thinks that his and Hermia’s love can overcome anything because it is true love. c) Being in love is a nasty experience. d) True love often faces conflicts and obstacles. e) True love is like a pointless race that no one can win.

6. Which statements are correct? (2) a) The audience feels sympathy for Hermia because the laws of her society are vulnerable towards her. b) The audience feels sympathy for Hermia because of her malicious actions. c) The audience feels sympathy for Hermia because she is a victim of the brutal laws of Athens. d) The audience feels sympathy for Hermia because of her father’s severe words and actions. e) The audience feels sympathy for Hermia because conflict.

7. Which statement is correct? (1) a) The Athenians know about the fairy kingdom in the forest. b) The Athenians are not aware that the fairies exist. c) King Theseus is the only human that knows about the fairy kingdom. d) Theseus and Hippolyta are actually Oberon and Titania in disguise. e) The Athenians are frightened of the powerful Oberon and Titania.

8. Which statements are correct? (3) a) Oberon and Titania are the fairy King and Queen of the forest. b) Oberon and Titania get on well with each other all the time. c) Oberon and Titania are the King and Queen of Athens. d) Oberon has magical powers. e) Oberon and Titania argue over a child.

9. Which statements are correct? (3) a) A soliloquy is a speech where a character talks to a large crowd. b) A soliloquy is a speech where a character speaks to themselves. c) A soliloquy is a speech where a character speaks to themselves and so reveals their true thoughts and feelings. d) In Oberon’s soliloquy he reveals that he is secretly plotting against Titania to get revenge. e) In Oberon’s soliloquy he reveals how sad he is to be arguing with Titania.

10. Which statements are correct? (2) a) When we first meet the fairy king and queen, Oberon starts the conflict in the scene by saying they are ‘ill-met’ and that Titania is ‘jealous’. b) When we first meet the fairy king and queen, Oberon starts the conflict in the scene by saying they are ‘ill met’ and that Titania is ‘proud’. c) Titania continues the conflict with Oberon by saying she will not dance with him. d) Titania tells Oberon that she will only trade the ‘changeling boy’ for all the riches of the ‘fairy land’. e) Titania states that Oberon could not ‘buy’ the boy from her even if he offered her everything in the ‘fairy kingdom’.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 9

Mastery Content:

• Puck is Oberon’s assistant and is naughty and mischievous • Oberon asks Puck to fetch a magic flower • The magic flower is used to create a powerful love potion which makes people fall in love with the first thing they see

Do Now: Last lesson, we met Oberon and Titania. In minimum three sentences, explain why they are in conflict.

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Extension: How is Oberon and Titania’s conflict similar or different to the conflict between Hermia and her father?

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Quick recap:

Oberon

Oberon is the king of the fairies, and is a powerful and impressive leader. He also has impressive magical powers.

Titania

Titania is the proud and assertive queen of the fairies. She will not be intimidated by anyone – especially not Oberon!

And now for a new character in the forest…

Puck Puck is a playful and mischievous character.

He is Oberon’s servant and will do whatever Oberon tells him to do.

He enjoys playing tricks and loves causing chaos and confusion.

As a fairy, he is also capable of magic, just like Oberon and Titania.

Oberon and Puck’s Plan

Oberon is still furious at his wife, the fairy queen Titania. But he has a plan.

He wants Puck to fetch him a precious flower which has a unique property.

With this flower, he can play a cruel trick on Titania which will help him take the child from Titania!

First, we need to find out more about the flower and what it can do.

The Love Potion

First, Oberon explains to Puck how the love potion was created. Cupid, the god of love, shot an arrow at someone. It missed the person but hit a flower instead!

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ By William Shakespeare Reading: Let’s read Act 2, Scene 1.

Act 2, Scene 1

Original text Translation OBERON Yet mark'd I where the bolt OBERON I saw where Cupid’s bow of Cupid fell. landed. It fell upon a little western flower, It fell on a little flower Before milk-white, now purple with That was once white, but love’ wound love's wound, has turned it purple. Fetch me that flow'r, the herb I showed Bring me the flower, the one I showed thee once. you before. The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids When you lay its juice on sleeping Will make or man or woman madly eyelids dote It will make the man or woman fall Upon the next live creature that it sees. madly in love Fetch me this herb, and be thou here With the next live creature that it sees. again Fetch me this herb, and be back here Ere the leviathan can swim a league. In the time it takes a whale to swim a mile.

PUCK I'll put a girdle round about PUCK I'll put a ring around the earth about the earth In forty minutes. In forty minutes! Exit Exit

Comprehension task: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. What colour was the flower before the arrow hit it?

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2. What colour was it after?

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Comprehension task continued: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

3. What happens to someone if the juice from the flower is placed on their eyes?

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‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ By William Shakespeare Reading : Now let’s read the second part of Act 2, Scene 1 (see below) to

find out what Oberon plans to do with the flower.

Act 2, Scene 1 continued

Original text Translation OBERON OBERON Having once this juice, When I have this potion, I'll watch Titania when she is asleep, I'll watch Titania when she is asleep And drop the liquor of it in her eyes; And drop it in her eyes. The next thing then she waking looks The next thing she, waking, looks at– upon, Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, Whether it’s a lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, On meddling monkey, or on busy ape, A mad monkey, or a busy ape– She shall pursue it with the soul of love. She will chase it with the passion of love.

Comprehension task: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. What will Oberon do with the plant?

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2. What will happen?

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Task: Annotate the quotation below to answer the following question:

What does Oberon’s description tell us about the love potion?

You can use the questions to guide you.

What do we associate the colour ‘white’ with? What does it say about the flower that it used to be white?

‘Before, milk-white; now purple with love’s wound.’

When you get hurt, what What is the flower like if it can happens to the skin? What colour cause a ‘wound’, an injury? Is the does it become? flower safe to use?

Task: Annotate the quotation below to answer the following question:

What does Oberon’s description tell us about the love potion?

You can use the questions to guide you.

‘Before, milk-white; now purple with love’s wound.’

Last term, we looked at how to start an analytical paragraph with a correct topic sentence. Remember:

A correct topic sentence does three important things: ❑ It answers the question. ❑ It says something accurate.

❑ It focusses on one thing.

Task: Decide whether the following are correct topic sentences that answer the question ‘How does the love potion come across in Oberon’s description?’

The first one has been done for you as a model.

Topic sentence 1 (model):

In Oberon’s description, the love potion comes across as severe.

Does it answer the question? _Yes______

Does it say something accurate? _No, a love potion can’t be severe______

Does it focus on one thing? _Yes______

Then, is it a correct topic sentence? _No, it is not correct______

Topic sentence 2:

In Oberon’s description, the love potion comes across as dangerous, powerful and intriguing.

Does it answer the question? ______

Does it say something accurate? ______

Does it focus on only one thing about the love potion? ______

Then, is it a correct topic sentence? ______

Task continued: Decide whether the following are correct topic sentences that answer the question ‘How does the love potion come across in Oberon’s description?’

Topic sentence 3:

In Oberon’s description, the love potion comes across as dangerous.

Does it answer the question? ______

Does it say something accurate? ______

Does it focus on only one thing about the love potion? ______

Then, is it a correct topic sentence? ______

Task: Today we looked at a few more quotations about the love potion.

Complete the Quotation Hunter on the next page for two of these quotations. The quotations are already written in the Quotation Hunter.

What’s happening in the play at this point?

Who is talking?

Who are they talking to?

Quotation (make sure you copy it exactly!) ‘purple with love's wound’

Notes on the quotation

What’s happening in the play at this point?

Who is talking?

Who are they talking to?

Quotation (make sure you copy it exactly!) ‘The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid

Will make or man or woman madly dote

Upon the next live creature that it sees.’

Notes on the quotation

Exit Quiz

Which statement is correct? Circle the correct answer.

a) Oberon wants to use the love potion on Puck.

b) Puck is Titania’s servant.

c) Oberon wants to make Titania jealous of him.

d) The love potion can make people fall in love.

e) Oberon wants to use the love potion on Titania.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 10

Mastery Content:

• Helena is in love with Demetrius • Helena tells Demetrius about Lysander and Hermia’s plan to leave Athens • Demetrius chases Hermia into the forest • Helena chases Demetrius into the forest • Demetrius is malicious to Helena

Do Now: Explain Oberon’s plan using the images below.

Puck Oberon Titania The love potion

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Extension: Do you think Oberon’s plan will solve the conflict between him and Titania? Explain your answer.

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Extra writing space for Do Now:

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We’re now going to find out more about this character...

Helena

Hell-en-ah

• Helena is Hermia’s best friend. • Helena loves Demetrius. • Demetrius does not love Helena anymore.

Let’s clarify who loves whom in the play:

loves loves

Hermia

Demetrius Lysander loves

Helena

Quick Task: Answer the question below in full sentences:

How could Oberon’s love potion help to solve the conflict between the lovers?

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A word to describe Helena’s love for Demetrius is unrequited.

Vocabulary: unrequited unrequited: If a person loves someone who doesn’t love them back, the person’s love is unrequited.

The correct way to use the word is to say:

‘person X’s love for person Y is unrequited’.

Examples: Look at how these sentences use the word conflict:

1. When he didn’t text back, the girl began to assume that her love for him was unrequited.

2. He thought she loved him but it turned out his love for her was unrequited.

3. She thought her love for him was unrequited, until he gave her the perfect gift.

Practice task: Helena’s love for Demetrius is unrequited. Who else have we seen in the play whose love is unrequited?

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• Demetrius wants to marry Hermia and has chased her into the forest.

• Helena is in love with Demetrius and has chased him into the forest.

• Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius are now all in the magical forest.

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ By William Shakespeare Reading: Helena and Demetrius are lost in the forest!

Let’s continue reading Act 2, Scene 1 (see below)

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Helena and Demetrius: Act 2, Scene 1 The forest. Enter DEMETRIUS, HELENA following him. DEMETRIUS I love thee not, therefore pursue me not. Where is Lysander and fair Hermia? Thou told'st me they ran into this wood; And here am I, and lost within this wood, Because I cannot meet my Hermia. 5 Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more. HELENA You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; adamant – an Elizabethan But my heart is true as steel – I won’t give up. word for a very hard metal DEMETRIUS with magnetic properties Do I entice you? do I speak you fair? 10 entice – tempt or attract Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you? HELENA And even for that do I love you the more. I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: 15 fawn – worship someone Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, spurn – reject Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave, Unworthy as I am, to follow you. What worse a place can I beg in your love, Than to be used as you use your dog? 20 DEMETRIUS Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit; For I am sick when I do look on thee. HELENA And I am sick when I look not on you. DEMETRIUS You embarrass yourself; You leave the city and commit yourself 25 Into the hands of one that loves you not, Risking everything in this dark and lonely night. HELENA But you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me? 30 DEMETRIUS I'll run from thee and hide in the bushes, And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.

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HELENA The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run where you will, the story shall be changed: The dove shall pursue the griffin; the gentle 35 griffin – a legendary beast deer Makes speed to catch the tiger! DEMETRIUS I will not stay thy questions; let me go: Or, if thou follow me, do not believe But I shall do thee mischief in the wood. HELENA fie – an expression of anger Fie, Demetrius! 40 We cannot fight for love, as men may do; woo – to try to win the love We should be wooed and were not made to of someone woo. Exit DEMETRIUS I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well. Exit

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Task: All of the quotes below show Demetrius hates Helena. Read all of them and write down the quotation that you feel is the most malicious.

Do I not in plainest truth

Tell you I do not, nor I cannot love you?

Get thee gone, and follow me no more.

For I am sick when I do look on thee.

I love thee not, therefore pursue me not. Demetrius

Most malicious quotation:

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Task: Annotate the quotation below to answer the following question:

What does this quotation tell us about how Demetrius feels about Helena?

For I am sick when I do look on thee.

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Task: Today we looked at some quotations that show how Demetrius feels about Helena.

Complete the Quotation Hunter on the next pages for two of these quotations. One of the quotations is given to you, the other you can choose on your own.

What’s happening in the play at this point?

Who is talking?

Who are they talking to?

Quotation (make sure you copy it exactly!) ‘For I am sick when I do look on thee.’

Notes on the quotation: What does this quotation tell us about how Demetrius feels about Helena?

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Now pick another quotation which shows the effects of unrequited love. Explain what it means.

What’s happening in the play at this Demetrius and Helena are arguing. point?

Helena Who is talking? Demetrius Who are they talking to?

Quotation (make sure you copy it exactly!): Choose your quotation.

Notes on the quotation: What does this quotation tell us about how unrequited love affects Helena’s behaviour?

Exit Quiz

Which statements are correct?

a) Hermia suffers from unrequited love.

b) In Demetrius's dialogue, he says malicious things to Helena.

c) Both Helena and Demetrius suffer unrequited love.

d) All of the lovers are now in the magical forest with Oberon, Titania and Puck.

e) Helena is Lysander's best friend.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 11

Mastery Content:

• Oberon commands Puck to use the love potion on Demetrius • Puck accidentally uses the love potion on Lysander • Lysander is now in love with Helena • Helena assumes that Lysander is mocking her • How to select the best quotations •

Do Now: Oberon was listening in to the conversation between Helena and Demetrius.

In your own words, explain what he would have heard them say to each other.

Oberon would have heard Demetrius tell Helena that….

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Oberon would have heard Helena tell Demetrius that…

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Extension: What is one malicious thing that Demetrius says to Helena?

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Thou shalt know the man by the

Athenian garments he hath on.

• Oberon feels pity for Helena.

• Puck returns with the love potion.

• Oberon tells Puck to find a man from Athens and put the love potion in his eyes so that he will fall in love with the next person he sees.

What happens next…

• Puck puts the love potion on the wrong Athenian man!

• Instead of giving the love potion to Demetrius, he gives it to Lysander.

• Lysander wakes up and the first person he sees is Helena.

• This means Lysander falls out of love with Hermia and in love with Helena.

• Demetrius still hates Helena.

Quick task: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. Why is this bad for all four Athenians?

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2. How do you think Helena will feel when Lysander says he loves her?

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• In this scene, Lysander wakes up and the first person he sees is Helena.

• This means Lysander falls out of love with Hermia and in love with Helena.

• Demetrius still hates Helena.

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ By William Shakespeare Reading: Let’s read Act 2, Scene 2, ‘And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake … When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?’ (see below)

Act 2 Scene 2

Original text Translation LYSANDER [Awaking.] LYSANDER (waking up) And run through fire I will for thy sweet I’d even run through fire if you told me sake. to. Radiant, beautiful Helena! I feel like Transparent Helena! Nature shows art, Mother Nature has allowed me to see That through thy bosom makes me see into your heart, as if by magic. Where is thy heart. Demetrius? Oh, I’d kill that name with Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word my sword if I could! Is that vile name to perish on my sword!

HELENA HELENA Don’t say that, Lysander. Don’t say that. Do not say so, Lysander; say not so Why do you care that he loves Hermia? What though he love your Hermia? What does it matter? Hermia still loves you, so be happy. Lord, what though?

Yet Hermia still loves you: then be content. LYSANDER LYSANDER Happy with Hermia? No. I regret all the Content with Hermia! No; I do repent boring time I wasted with her. I don’t The tedious minutes I with her have love Hermia; I love Helena. Who spent. wouldn’t love a dove more than a Not Hermia but Helena I love: crow? A man’s desires are influenced by his logical mind, and it’s simply Who will not change a raven for a logical that you’re more worthy of love dove? than Hermia is. Fruits and vegetables The will of man is by his reason sway'd; don’t ripen until the right season of the And reason says you are the worthier year. Likewise, I’m young, and my sense maid. of reason has just ripened. I can finally Things growing are not ripe until their see the light. My logic has more control season over my desires than it used to, and it’s So I, being young, till now ripe not to telling me to look into your eyes, where I reason; see every love story ever told.

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And touching now the point of human skill, Reason becomes the marshal to my will

And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook

Love's stories written in love's richest book.

HELENA HELENA Wherefore was I to this keen mockery Why does everyone always make fun of born? me? What have I done to deserve this When at your hands did I deserve this kind of treatment from you? scorn?

Comprehension task: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. How can you tell that Lysander is in love with Helena? Give at least two things he says.

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2. How does Helena react to Lysander being in love with her?

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In this scene, Helena thinks that Lysander is mocking her.

Vocabulary: to mock to mock: To mock someone is to make fun of them.

Examples: Look at how these sentences use the word conflict:

1. The mean boy mocked his younger brother.

2. The girl was convinced her friends were mocking her.

3. The school bully always mocks his victims.

Today, we are going to look at how we can use quotations correctly in an analytical paragraph.

When writing analytical paragraphs, you should choose quotations that: ❑ Show that the topic sentence is accurate. ❑ Avoid repeating the topic sentence.

❑ Last no more than two lines of your writing.

Here is an example of a good way to use a quotation to support a topic sentence:

When writing analytical Example 1: paragraphs, you should choose quotations that: When Lysander falls in love with Helena, she assumes that he is ❑ Show that the topic making fun of her. This is evident sentence is accurate. ❑ Avoid repeating the when she says ‘when at your hands did I deserve this scorn?’ topic sentence. ❑ Last no more than two lines of your writing.

This is a good use of a quotation to support this topic sentence.

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Now, let’s look at other examples of using quotations to support topic sentences and see if they are good or not. If they are not good, we will look at how we can correct them.

When writing analytical Example 2: paragraphs, you should Helena assumes Lysander is choose quotations that: mocking her because his ❑ Show that the topic speech seems too intense. This is sentence is accurate. demonstrated when Lysander ❑ Avoid repeating the says, ‘Not Hermia, but Helena I topic sentence.

love.’ ❑ Last no more than two lines of your writing.

 This is a bad way to use a quotation to support this topic sentence. The quotation doesn’t show that the topic sentence is accurate because nothing in the quotation suggests his love is intense.

What is a different quotation that would make more sense?

When writing analytical paragraphs, you should Example 2 corrected: choose quotations that: Helena assumes Lysander is ❑ Show that the topic mocking her because his sentence is accurate. speech seems too intense. This is ❑ Avoid repeating the demonstrated when Lysander topic sentence. says, ‘And run through fire would ❑ Last no more than two I for thy sweet sake!’ lines of your writing.

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Example 3: When writing analytical

Helena does not trust Lysander paragraphs, you should because of his sudden change choose quotations that: in attitude towards Hermia. This ❑ Show that the topic can be seen when he says, sentence is accurate. ‘Content with Hermia? No. I do ❑ Avoid repeating the repent the tedious minutes I with topic sentence. her have spent. Not Hermia but ❑ Last no more than two Helena I love. Who will not lines of your writing. change a raven for a dove?’

 This is a bad way to use a quotation to support this topic sentence. The quotation is too long. This is a sign that the student hasn’t thought carefully enough about which bit of the quotation really supports the topic sentence.

What is a different quotation that would be shorter and still show the topic sentence is accurate?

When writing analytical Example 3 corrected: paragraphs, you should Helena does not trust Lysander choose quotations that: because of his sudden change ❑ Show that the topic in attitude towards Hermia. This sentence is accurate. can be seen when he says, ‘I do ❑ Avoid repeating the repent the tedious minutes I with topic sentence. her have spent.’ ❑ Last no more than two lines of your writing.

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Main Task: Write one paragraph to answer the question below. This needs to be between 5-8 sentences long.

How does Shakespeare show Helena's feelings towards Lysander in this scene?

You can use one of the topic sentences from today’s lesson to help you if you wish.

• When Lysander falls in love with Helena, she assumes that he is making fun of her. This is evident when…

• Helena assumes Lysander is mocking her because his speech seems too intense. This is demonstrated when…

• Helena does not trust Lysander because of his sudden change in attitude towards Hermia. This can be seen when…

Your paragraph:

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Extra writing space:

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Exit Quiz

Which statements are correct?

a) When Lysander tells Helena he loves her, Helena reacts with happiness and joy when she says ‘When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?’

b) When Lysander tells Helena he loves her, Helena thinks he is making fun of her because she says ‘When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?’

c) When Lysander tells Helena he loves her, Helena thinks he is making fun of her because she says ‘Hermia still loves you; then be content?’

d) When Lysander tells Helena he loves her, Helena reacts with happiness and joy when she says ‘Hermia still loves you; then be content?’

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 12

Mastery Content:

• Oberon discovers the mistake Puck has made with the love potion • Oberon makes Demetrius fall in love with Helena • Both Demetrius and Lysander are in love with Helena • Helena feels she is being mocked by Demetrius and Lysander • Demetrius falls out of love with Hermia and in love with Helena •

Do Now: Using this diagram to help you, write an explanation of the current situation between the lovers in 5-7 sentences,

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Extension: Use the words 'unrequited' and 'mock' in your explanation.

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• Although Hermia and Lysander ran away together, Lysander is now under the influence of the love potion. He has fallen in love with Helena.

• Helena still loves Demetrius, but he is still not interested in her.

• Demetrius is still pursuing Hermia.

• Because of the love potion, Hermia has lost Lysander to Helena.

Oberon sees Lysander has been made to fall in love with Helena. He tells Puck:

What hast thou done? Thou hast mistaken quite,

And laid the love juice on some true love’s sight.

Quick task: What is the ‘mistake’ Puck has made?

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Puck should have given the love potion to Demetrius. Instead, he gave it to Lysander.

Oberon tells Puck to use the potion on Demetrius to make up for the mistake.

Puck says that two Then will two at once woo one. people will now be in love with one person.

Comprehension task: Answer the questions below in full sentences:

1. Which two people will be in love with the same person?

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2. Who will they be in love with?

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3. Who will be left out?

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• The love potion has caused further conflict.

• Demetrius and Lysander are now going to be fighting over Helena.

• Helena still thinks they are both mocking her.

• Now no one loves Hermia.

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ By William Shakespeare Reading: Let’s read Act 3, Scene 2, ‘O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine … Whom I do love, and will do till my death.’

Act 3 Scene 2

Original text Translation DEMETRIUS [Awaking.] DEMETRIUS (waking up) O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, Oh Helena, you goddess, you divine divine! and perfect nymph! What can I To what, my love, shall I compare thine compare your eyes to? Crystal isn’t eyne? as clear as they are. Oh, your lips are Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show as ripe as a pair of tempting cherries Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting touching each other! The pure white grow! of the snow on a mountaintop That pure congealed white, high Taurus seems black as a crow’s wing next snow, to the whiteness of your hands. Oh, Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a let me kiss your beautiful white hand. crow It’ll make me so happy When thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss

This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!

HELENA HELENA O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent Damn it! I see you’re all determined to To set against me for your merriment: gang up on me for a few laughs. If you If you we re civil and knew courtesy, had any manners at all, you wouldn’t You would not do me thus much injury. treat me like this. Can’t you just hate

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Can you not hate me, as I know you do, me, as I know you do? Do you have to But you must join in souls to mock me get together to humiliate me too? If you too? were real men, as you pretend to be, you wouldn’t treat a lady this way, If you were men, as men you are in making vows and promises and praising show, my beauty when I know you’re really You would not use a gentle lady so; both disgusted by me. You’re To vow, and swear, and superpraise my competing for Hermia’s love, and now parts, you’re competing to see which one of When I am sure you hate me with your you can make fun of me the most. hearts. That’s a great idea, a really manly thing You both are rivals, and love Hermia; to do—making a poor girl cry! No And now both rivals, to mock Helena: respectable person would offend an innocent girl just to have some fun. A trim exploit, a manly enterprise,

To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes With your derision! none of noble sort Would so offend a virgin, and extort A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport.

LYSANDER LYSANDER You are unkind, Demetrius; be not so; Don’t be cruel, Demetrius. I know you For you love Hermia; this you know I love Hermia, and you know I know it. know: Right here, right now, I swear I’m giving And here, with all good will, with all my up all my claims on her and handing heart, her to you. In exchange, give up your In Hermia's love I yield you up my part; claim to love Helena, since I love her And yours of Helena to me bequeath, and will love her until I die. Whom I do love and will do till my death.

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Task: Find one quote from the text that shows:

1. Demetrius has gone mad with love for Helena.

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2. Helena feels like she is being made fun of by Demetrius and Lysander, because neither liked her before.

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3. Lysander has fallen out of love with Hermia and fallen in love with Helena.

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Task: Answer the following questions in full sentences.

1. What did Oberon want the love potion to do for the lovers?

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2. What effect has it actually had?

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Extension: Does the love potion seem like a force for good or bad? Explain your answer.

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Fill in notes about this quotation in your Quotation Hunter worksheet.

Quotation Hunter: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Demetrius has just fallen in love with What’s happening in the play at this Helena point?

Helena Who is talking? Demetrius and Lysander Who are they talking to?

Quotation (make sure you copy it exactly!) ‘I see you are all bent

To set upon me for your merriment.’

Notes on the quotation: What does this quotation tell us about how Helena feels?

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AMND Name: Date: Quiz Score Fortnightly Quiz T3 ___ /10 When you have marked your quiz, put a tick next to the questions you got right and a cross next to the questions you got wrong. Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10

 ------Numbers in brackets show the number of correct answers for each question. 1. Here is a topic sentence about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: Before the lovers enter the forest, they know that they will have to overcome challenges to show that their love is strong and real. What would be the best evidence to support this topic sentence? (1) a) ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ b) ‘Who will not change a raven for a dove?’ c) ‘And run through fire would I for thy sweet sake!’ d) ‘I may dispose of her; / Which shall be either to this gentleman / Or to her death’

2. Which statement is correct? (1) a) The laws in Athens are the same as the laws in the forest. b) There are no rulers in the forest. c) The forest has different rulers and laws than in Athens. d) Titania and Oberon agree about everything. e) Titania and Oberon disagree about the laws in Athens.

3. Which statements about the start of Act 2 are correct? (2) a) Oberon wants to use the love potion on Puck. b) Puck is Titania’s servant. c) Oberon wants to make Titania jealous of him. d) The love potion can make people fall in love. e) Oberon wants to use the love potion on Titania.

4. Which statements about the start of Act 2 are correct? (3) a) Hermia suffers from unrequited love. b) In Demetrius's dialogue, he says malicious things to Helena. c) Both Helena and Demetrius suffer unrequited love. d) All of the lovers are now in the magical forest with Oberon, Titania and Puck. e) Helena is Lysander's best friend.

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5. Which statements about the start of Act 2 are correct? (3) a) Helena will do anything to get Demetrius to fall in love with her. b) Demetrius is honest with Helena because he tells her that he doesn’t love her. c) Demetrius doesn’t love Helena because she is ugly. d) Demetrius mildly dislikes Helena. e) Helena begs to be abused by Demetrius.

6. In Act 2, Demetrius says this to Helena: ‘For I am sick when I do look on thee.’ What does this quotation tell us? (2) a) Demetrius wants to leave Helena on her own in the forest. b) Demetrius hates Helena so much it makes him feel sick. c) Helena wants Demetrius to treat her like a dog. d) Demetrius doesn’t want to look at Helena. e) Demetrius loves Helena.

7. Later in Act 2, Lysander tells Helena that he is in love with her. Which statement about Helena’s reaction is correct? (1) a) Helena reacts with happiness and joy when she says, ‘When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?’ b) Helena thinks he is mocking of her because she says ‘When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?’ c) Helena thinks he is making fun of her because she says ‘Hermia still loves you; then be content?’ d) Helena reacts with happiness and joy when she says ‘Hermia still loves you; then be content?’ e) Helena reacts with surprise and happiness, as can be seen when she says ‘And even for that do I love you the more.’

8. In Act 3, Helena says this to Lysander, Demetrius and Hermia: ‘I see you are all bent To set against me for your merriment.’ What does this quotation tell us about Helena? (2) a) Helena is delighted because Demetrius has finally fallen in love with her. b) Helena is unhappy because she thinks Demetrius and Lysander are only pretending to be in love with her. c) Helena is unhappy because she doesn’t love Demetrius but he loves her. d) Helena is in love with Demetrius. e) Helena feels as though everyone is mocking her.

9. At the start of Act 2, Oberon describes the love potion like this: ‘Before, milk-white; now purple with love’s wound.’ What do we learn about the love potion from this quotation? (2) a) ‘Love’s wound’ suggests that true love will have to face obstacles. b) ‘Love’s wound’ suggests that the love potion can cause people harm. c) ‘Milk-white’ suggests that the love potion can cause hurt, just like a bruise. d) ‘Now purple’ suggests that the love potion can cause hurt, just like a bruise.

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e) The love potion has the power to make people fall in love with whatever they see.

10. At the start of Act 2, Oberon describes the effects of the love potion like this: ‘The next thing she waking looks upon, she shall pursue it with the soul of love.’ What do we learn about the love potion from this quotation? (3) a) ‘The soul of love’ suggests that the love potion has the power to make people fall strongly in love with whatever they see. b) The love potion is very powerful. c) Puck plans to use the love potion to cause conflict between the four lovers. d) Oberon plans to use the love potion in Helena. e) The love potion causes people to change dramatically.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 13

Mastery Content:

• Titania falls under the influence of the love potion • Puck transforms Bottom’s head into a donkey’s head • Titania falls in love with Bottom • Oberon has used the love potion to make Titania look absurd

Do Now: Explain how these images are related in 50 words or fewer.

Oberon Puck Titania Love potion Sleeping eyes

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Do Now Extension: Explain the mistake Puck made with the four lovers.

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In Act 2, Scene 1, Oberon said that he wanted to play a trick on Titania. He said…

The next thing then she waking looks upon, Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, On meddling monkey, or on busy ape, She shall pursue it with the soul of love

Quick task: Answer the question below in full sentences:

Who or what do you think Titania will fall in love with when she wakes up?

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Task: These images show what happens next.

Explain in your own words what you think has happened.

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Act 3, Scene 1 • A group of actors have gone to the forest to rehearse a play. • The lead actor is a man called Bottom. • Puck puts a spell on him to turn his head into a donkey’s head! • When Titania wakes up, Bottom is the first thing she sees!

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ By William Shakespeare Reading: Let’s read the scene: Act 3, Scene 1, ‘I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again … Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.’

Act 3, scene 1

TITANIA TITANIA I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again: Please sing again, sweet human. I love Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy to listen to your voice, and I love to look at your body. I know this is the first time note; I’ve ever seen you, but you’re so So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape; wonderful that I can’t help swearing to And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth you that I love you. move me On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.

BOTTOM BOTTOM Methinks, mistress, you should have little I don’t think you’ve got much of a reason reason to love me. But to tell you the for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason truth, reason and love have very little to and love keep little company together do with each other these days. It’s too now-a-days; bad some mutual friend of theirs the more the pity that some honest doesn’t introduce them. Ha, ha! No, I’m neighbours will just kidding. not make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion. TITANIA TITANIA You’re as wise as you are beautiful. Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.

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Comprehension task: Answer these questions in full sentences:

1. What is the first thing Titania sees when she wakes up?

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2. What does she say that tells you she has fallen in love?

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3. Do you think Titania would have fallen in love with this person if Oberon had not given her the love potion?

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Quick task: What do you think Titania means by this line and why is it comical?

‘Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful’

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Task: Fill in notes about this quotation in your Quotation Hunter worksheet.

Quotation Hunter: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Titania has just woken up and fallen in What’s happening in the play at this love with Bottom. point?

Titania Who is talking? Bottom Who are they talking to?

Quotation (make sure you copy it exactly!) ‘Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.’

Notes on the quotation: What does this quotation tell us about how Titania feels about Bottom?

Exit Quiz

‘Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.’ What does this quotation tell us?

a) Titania thinks Bottom is clever and attractive.

b) Titania is infatuated with Bottom.

c) Titania is infatuated with Bottom because she praises him for being clever and attractive.

d) Titania is infatuated with Bottom because she says that he is a great singer.

e) Titania must be under the influence of a magic spell, because Bottom is not really wise or beautiful.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 14

Mastery Content:

• Hermia and Helena are in conflict • Hermia thinks Helena has stolen Lysander away from her • Hermia and Helena are cruel and vicious to each other • Their relationship has completely deteriorated • The love potion has caused confusion, chaos and conflict

Do Now: Imagine you are Hermia.

Write down what you are thinking and feeling at the moment.

Remember that:

• The man you love has forsaken you.

• He claims to be desperately in love with your best friend.

• This is the man you fled your home for!

• Your best friend acts like she had nothing to do with it.

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Extension: Now imagine you see Helena. How would you react?

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• Lysander and Demetrius are both madly in love with Helena.

• Helena acts like she has no idea what is going on (because she doesn’t!)

• No one knows about the love potion.

• Hermia is devastated that Lysander is acting in this way.

Quick task: Who do you think Hermia will blame? Why?

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In this scene, Hermia blames Helena for what has happened! The girls are in conflict and start trading insults.

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ By Reading: Let’s read Act 3, Scene 2, ‘O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, William Shakespeare …You bead, you acorn.’

Act 3, Scene 2

HERMIA HERMIA O me! you juggler! you canker-blossom! Oh, no! (to HELENA) You trickster, you You thief of love! what, have you come snake! You thief! What, did you sneak in at night and steal my love’s heart by night from him? And stolen my love's heart from him?

HELENA HELENA Oh, that’s very nice! You ought to be Fine, i'faith! ashamed of yourself! You’re going to Have you no modesty, no maiden make me mad enough to answer shame, you? Damn you, you faker, you No touch of bashfulness? What, will you puppet! tear Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?

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Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!

HERMIA HERMIA Puppet? why so? ay, that way goes the “Puppet”? Why “puppet”?—Oh, I see game. where this is going. She’s talking about our difference in height. She’s Now I perceive that she hath made paraded in front of him to show off compare how tall she is. She won him over with Between our statures; she hath urged her her height.—Does he have such a height; high opinion of you because I’m so And with her personage, her tall short? Is that it? So how short am I, you personage, painted barber pole? Tell me. How Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd short am I? I’m not too short to gouge with him. your eyes out with my fingernails. And are you grown so high in his esteem; Because I am so dwarfish and so low? How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak; How low am I? I am not yet so low But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.

HELENA I pray you, though you mock me, HELENA Please don’t let her hurt me, gentlemen, gentlemen, however much you want Let her not hurt me: I was never curst; to tease me. I never was much good I have no gift at all in shrewishness; with insults. I’m not mean and catty I am a right maid for my cowardice: like her. I’m a nice shy girl. Please Let her not strike me. You perhaps may don’t let her hit me. Maybe you think think, that because she’s shorter than me I Because she is something lower than can take her. myself, That I can match her.

HERMIA "Lower"? hark, again. HERMIA “Shorter!” See, she’s doing it again! HELENA Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with HELENA me. Good Hermia, please don’t act so I evermore did love you, Hermia, bitter toward me. I always loved you, Did ever keep your counsels, never Hermia, and gave you advice. I never wrong'd you; did anything to hurt you—except Save that, in love unto Demetrius, once, when I told Demetrius that you I told him of your stealth unto this wood. planned to sneak off into this forest. He follow'd you; for love I follow'd him; And I only did that because I loved But he hath chid me hence and Demetrius so much. He followed you.

136 threaten'd me And I followed him because I loved To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too: him. But he told me to get lost and And now, so you will let me quiet go, threatened to hit me, kick me—even kill me. Now just let me go quietly To Athens will I bear my folly back back to Athens. I’ll carry my mistakes And follow you no further: let me go: back with me. I won’t follow you You see how simple and how fond I am. anymore. Please let me go. You see how naïve and foolish I’ve been. HERMIA HERMIA Why, get you gone: who is't that hinders Well, get out of here then! What’s you? keeping you?

HELENA HELENA A foolish heart, that I leave here behind. My stupid heart, which I’m leaving behind here.

HERMIA HERMIA What, with Lysander? What, you’re leaving it with Lysander?

HELENA HELENA With Demetrius. No, with Demetrius.

LYSANDER LYSANDER Be not afraid; she shall not harm thee, Don’t be afraid. She can’t hurt you, Helena. Helena.

DEMETRIUS DEMETRIUS No, sir, she shall not, though you take her That’s right, Hermia won’t hurt Helena even if you try to help her. part.

HELENA HELENA O, when she's angry, she is keen and Oh, when you get her angry, she’s a shrewd! good fighter, and vicious too. She was She was a vixen when she went to school; a hellcat in school. And she’s fierce, And though she be but little, she is fierce. even though she’s little.

HERMIA HERMIA "Little" again! nothing but "low" and “Little” again? Nothing but “little” and "little"! “short”!— Why are you letting her insult Why will you suffer her to flout me thus? me like this? Let me at her!. Let me come to her.

LYSANDER LYSANDER (to HERMIA) Get lost, you dwarf, you Get you gone, you dwarf; tiny little weed, you scrap, you acorn! You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made; You bead, you acorn.

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Task: Below are five topic sentences about this scene and five quotations that match one of the topic sentences. Decide which quotation supports which points by matching them with an arrow, as shown in the model.

1. Hermia is convinced that A. This can be seen when she says Helena has intentionally stolen ‘she was a vixen when she went to Lysander from her. school.’

2. Hermia thinks that Helena B. This can be seen when Hermia says has turned their friendship ‘Little again! Nothing but low and rotten. little?’

3. Hermia tries to attack C. This can be seen when she calls Helena physically. her a ‘canker-blossom’.

4. Helena now claims that her D. She says ‘I am not yet so low but old friend has always been that my nails can reach unto thine sneaky. eyes.’

5. Helena constantly insults E. This is evident when she says ‘you Hermia for being short. thief of love’.

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• Lysander is madly in love with Helena.

• Helena doesn’t understand what is happening.

• No-one knows about the love potion.

• Hermia is upset that Lysander is acting in this way.

• She thinks Helena has stolen Lysander away.

A word to describe what the lovers are experiencing is chaos.

Vocabulary: chaos chaos: Chaos happens when there is no order and everyone is confused.

Examples: Look at how these sentences use the word chaos:

1. As soon as the teacher left the room, there was chaos.

2. Oliver was chased for being a thief whilst Dodger and Charlie escaped in the chaos.

3. My bedroom may look chaotic but I promise I know where everything is.

Practice task: Write down at least 3 ways in which the love potion has created chaos in the play so far.

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Task: Fill in notes about this quotation in your Quotation Hunter worksheet.

Quotation Hunter: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Hermia is blaming Helena for stealing What’s happening in the play at this away Lysander. point?

Hermia Who is talking? Helena Who are they talking to?

Quotation (make sure you copy it exactly!) ‘O me! you juggler! you canker-blossom!

You thief of love!’

Notes on the quotation: What does this quotation tell us about how Hermia feels about Helena? What does it tell us about the impact of the love potion?

Exit Quiz

In which quotation does Hermia accuse Helena of stealing Lysander from her?

a) ‘How low am I, thou painted maypole?’

b) ‘You counterfeit, you puppet!’

c) ‘She was a vixen when she went to school.’

d) ‘You thief of love!’

e) ‘She is something lower than myself!’

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 15

Mastery Content:

• Oberon wants to resolve every conflict and restore order • The only person who is left under the influence of the love potion is Demetrius • Demetrius professes his love for Helena and no longer wishes to marry Hermia • Against Egeus’s wishes, King Theseus decides not to punish the lovers and allows them to marry who they want

Do Now: Which characters are in conflict with each other and why?

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Extension: Who do you have the most sympathy for and why?

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Oberon sees that there is a lot of conflict in the forest.

He wants to resolve the conflict.

Vocabulary: to resolve

to resolve: To resolve means to solve a problem or difficulty.

Examples: Look at how these sentences use to resolve:

1. The plumber came round and resolved the problem with the sink.

2. The teacher found it difficult to resolve the conflict between the two students.

3. The corrupt Mrs Bumble resolved the issue of how to pay for her new dress by using the money meant for the boys’ meals.

Oberon makes a plan to resolve the conflicts caused by the love potion. He devises a plan with Puck:

• First, Oberon will remove the love potion from Titania.

• Puck will lure the Athenian lovers to the edge of the forest and cast a spell on them so that they all fall asleep.

• Next, Puck will remove the love potion from Lysander.

• Finally, Oberon decides to keep the love potion on Demetrius.

Quick task: Answer the question below in full sentences:

How does this plan resolve the conflicts caused by the love potion?

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Oberon’s plan worked!

• He has removed the love potion from Lysander, who is back in love with Hermia.

• Oberon has left the love potion on Demetrius, who is in love with Helena.

• Theseus, Egeus and Hippolyta find the four lovers in the forest.

• No one knows what happened in the night. The lovers think they have had strange dreams.

Reading: Let’s read Act 4, Scene 1, ‘Pardon, my lord …Come, Hippolyta.’

In this scene, Demetrius explains to Egeus that he used to love Hermia but now ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ By loves Helena. William Shakespeare

We will read what he says.

Act 4, Scene 1

Original text Translation LYSANDER LYSANDER Pardon, my lord. Forgive us, my lord.

THESEUS THESEUS I pray you all, stand up. Please, all of you, stand up. I know you two are rival enemies: (to LYSANDER and DEMETRIUS) I know How comes this gentle concord in the you two are enemies. Has the world world, really become so gentle and peaceful That hatred is so far from jealousy, that people who hate each other have To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity? started to trust each other and sleep beside each other without being afraid?

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LYSANDER LYSANDER My lord, what I say may be a little My lord, I shall reply amazedly, confused, since I’m half asleep and half Half sleep, half waking: but as yet, I awake. I swear, at the moment I really swear, couldn’t tell you how I ended up here. I cannot truly say how I came here; But I think—I want to tell you the truth, But, as I think,—for truly would I speak, and now that I think about it, I think this And now do I bethink me, so it is,— is true—I came here with Hermia. We I came with Hermia hither: our intent were planning to leave Athens to Was to be gone from Athens, where we escape the Athenian law and— might, Without the peril of the Athenian law,—

EGEUS EGEUS (to THESEUS) Enough, enough, my lord. Enough, enough, my lord; you have You’ve heard enough evidence! I insist enough: that the law punish him—They were I beg the law, the law, upon his head. going to run away, Demetrius, they They would have stolen away; they were running away to defeat us, would, Demetrius, robbing you of your wife and me of my Thereby to have defeated you and fatherly right to decide who my son-in- me, law will be. You of your wife and me of my consent, Of my consent that she should be your wife. DEMETRIUS DEMETRIUS (to THESEUS) My lord, the beautiful My lord, fair Helen told me of their Helena told me about their secret plan stealth, to escape into this forest. I was furious and followed them here, and the lovely Of this their purpose hither to this wood; Helena was so in love with me that she And I in fury hither follow'd them, followed me. I’m not sure how it Fair Helena in fancy following me. happened—but somehow, something But, my good lord, I wot not by what made my love for Hermia melt away power,— like snow. My past love for Hermia now But by some power it is,—my love to seems like a memory of some cheap Hermia, toy I used to love as a child. Now the Melted as the snow, seems to me now only person I love, and believe in, and As the remembrance of an idle gaud want to look at, is Helena. I was engaged to her before I ever met Which in my childhood I did dote upon; Hermia. Then I hated her for a time, as a And all the faith, the virtue of my heart, sick person hates the food he usually The object and the pleasure of mine loves. But now I have my natural taste eye, back, like a sick person when he Is only Helena. To her, my lord, recovers. Now I want Helena, I love her, Was I betroth'd ere I saw Hermia: I long for her, and I will always be true But, like in sickness, did I loathe this food; to her. But, as in health, come to my natural taste,

Now I do wish it, love it, long for it,

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And will for evermore be true to it.

THESEUS THESEUS Fair lovers, you are fortunately met: You pretty lovers are lucky you met me Of this discourse we more will hear here. We’ll talk more about this later.— anon. Egeus, I’m overriding your wishes. These Egeus, I will overbear your will; couples will be married along with me For in the temple by and by with us and Hippolyta in the temple later These couples shall eternally be knit: today.—And now, since the morning is And, for the morning now is something almost over, we’ll give up on the idea worn, of hunting. Come with us to Athens. We Our purposed hunting shall be set aside. three couples will celebrate with a Away with us to Athens; three and sumptuous feast. Come, Hippolyta. three, We'll hold a feast in great solemnity. Come, Hippolyta.

THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, and EGEUS exit [Exeunt THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and with their followers. train.]

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Comprehension task: Answer the questions below in full sentences.

1. How does Demetrius feel about Helena now compared to at the start of the play? Which line tells you that?

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2. What does Demetrius think has made him fall out of love with Hermia?

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Extension: What has made Demetrius fall out of love with Hermia? Who knows this?

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Task: Fill in notes about this quotation in your Quotation Hunter worksheet.

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Quotation Hunter: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Demetrius is explaining how he feels to What’s happening in the play at this Egeus and Theseus point?

Demetrius Who is talking? Egeus and Theseus Who are they talking to?

Quotation (make sure you copy it exactly!) ‘My love to Hermia,

Melted as the snow’

Notes on the quotation: What does this quotation tell us about how Demetrius used to feel and how he feels now?

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Main task: Agree or Disagree.

Here are two statements on Oliver’s decision to run away to London.

A. This is a happy ending because the lovers are

happy. There is no more conflict or unrequited love.

B. This is not a happy ending because

Demetrius only loves Helena because of the potion. This is not true love.

Write one paragraph explaining which statement you agree with the most and why. Your answer should be between 8 and 10 sentences long.

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❑ Check 1: Does Check 2: Does Check 3: Do all Check 4: Have you every sentence every sentence names start with a spelt names start with a end with a full capital letter? correctly? e.g.

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Extra writing space:

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Exit Quiz

Which statements about the ending are correct?

a) Egeus has changed his mind about Lysander.

b) The lovers think their journey through the forest has been a strange dream.

c) Theseus changes his mind and allows the lovers to marry whoever they wish without punishment.

d) Demetrius resolves the conflict.

e) Demetrius decides to marry Helena because he wants Hermia and Lysander to be happy.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 16

Mastery Content:

• That the love potion can be viewed as both negative and positive. • That the love potion is positive because: it enables Hermia and Lysander to marry and avoid execution; the story ends happily; Helena gets to marry Demetrius; it adds to the entertainment of the story. • That the love potion is negative because: it causes Helena and Hermia to quarrel; Demetrius only loves Helena because of the potion; it causes conflict and chaos; it is dangerous.

Do Now: Complete the following Cloze activity:

As dawn breaks, Theseus, his attendants, Hippolyta and Egeus enter the forest. They are startled to find the sleeping in the glade. They wake them and ask them to explain what they are doing there. However, the Athenian lovers struggle to remember and the night’s events feel like a .

Lysander explains that he fled the city with . This angers Egeus and he demands that Theseus Lysander.

Demetrius explains that he no longer loves . His feelings for her melted like the . Demetrius is now in love with .

Theseus gives them all permission to and orders them to follow him to the temple for a great wedding feast.

dream marry Hermia Athenian lovers Hermia snow

executes Helen a

Extension: Why do you think Theseus gives the two couples permission to marry?

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The love potion is introduced by Oberon, king of the fairies.

You drop the potion into the eyes of someone who is asleep. When they wake, they fall in love with the first person they see.

In the play, Oberon uses the potion on Titania, Lysander and Demetrius.

The potion doesn’t wear off naturally. A different herb is used to lift the spell.

The potion is powerful and dangerous.

Love Potion: Good or Bad?

We are going to start planning for our assessment.

Task: Below are 8 reason why the love potion is either good or bad. Read each reason and decide if it shows that the potion is good or bad. Then, write each reason in the correct column in the table.

1. The potion is dangerous because it can make people fall in love with the wrong person.

2. The potion makes Demetrius happy whereas at the start of the play he was miserable because his love for Hermia was unrequited.

3. The potion provides lots of comedy and entertains the audience.

4. Helena gets to marry the man she loves.

5. Hermia and Lysander avoid execution and are given permission to marry.

6. Helena and Hermia fall out and quarrel.

7. Demetrius only loves Helena because of the potion.

8. The potion causes conflict and chaos.

Good or bad? Write each statement in the correct column below. The first one is done for you as a model.

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5. Hermia and Lysander avoid execution and are given permission to marry.

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Love Potion: Good or Bad?

Well done for sorting the reasons in the correct column.

Main Task: Pick one statement from the table to focus on. You are going to explain in detail how you have arrived at your decision. Look at the example below.

Example:

Explanation

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Love Potion: Good or Bad?

Well done for sorting the reasons in the correct column.

Main Task: Pick one statement from the table to focus on. You are going to explain in detail how you have arrived at your decision.

Your statement: Your statement:

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Your explanation: Your explanation:

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AMND Name: Date: Quiz Score Fortnightly Quiz T4 ___ /10 When you have marked your quiz, put a tick next to the questions you got right and a cross next to the questions you got wrong. Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10

 ------Numbers in brackets show the number of correct answers for each question. 1. Which statements about the end of the play are correct? (2) a) After he had the love potion removed, Demetrius fell back in love with Hermia. b) Demetrius is still under the influence of the love potion. c) Egeus has forgiven his daughter Hermia, and will let her marry Lysander. d) The phrase ‘melted like snow’ proves that the play takes place in summer. e) Demetrius is in love with Helena.

2. Which statements about the end of the play are correct? (2) a) Oberon uses the love potion on Helena. b) Oberon lifts the spell of the potion from Demetrius and Lysander. c) Demetrius is in love with Hermia at the end of the play. d) Lysander and Hermia marry at the end of the play. e) Demetrius and Helena marry at the end of the play.

3. Which statements are correct? (2) a) The love potion is a force for bad because Hermia and Lysander get married at the end. b) The love potion is good because it makes you fall in love with the first person you see. c) The love potion is made from the juice of a rare flower. d) The love potion results in Hermia and Helena arguing and fighting. e) The love potion wears off over time.

4. Read the following essay paragraph. The love potion is destructive because it causes Helena and Hermia to fight despite being old friends. In Act 3, Scene 2, Hermia calls Helena, “You thief of love!” Which of the following explanations best supports the topic sentence and evidence in the above paragraph? (1) a) This shows that Hermia thinks Helena is in love with Lysander. b) Hermia insults Helena by calling her a thief because she thinks that Helena has stolen Lysander from her. c) The potion is a bad thing because the women fight. d) This shows that Helena is a thief of love.

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5. Which quotation means that people who fall in love often have to face struggles and hardships before they can be happy? (1)

a) And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake. b) The course of true love never did run smooth. c) Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful. d) My love to Hermia, melted as the snow. e) For I am sick when I do look on thee.

6. Which quotation does Titania say to Bottom? (1) a) ‘Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful’. b) ‘And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake’. c) ‘You thief of love!’ d) ‘Thou painted maypole!’ e) ‘For I am sick when I do look on thee.’

7. Read the following essay paragraph. The love potion creates happiness because it causes Demetrius and Helena to fall in love. In Act 3 scene 2, Demetrius says, ‘The object and the pleasure of mine eye, is only Helena’. Which explanation best supports the topic sentence and evidence in the above paragraph? (1) a) This shows us that Demetrius has been forced to fall in love against his will, because before he took the love potion, he loved Hermia, but now he is saying that the ‘only’ object of his love is Helena. b) This shows us that Demetrius does not really love Helena. He ‘only’ says this because he has been brainwashed by the love potion. c) This shows that Demetrius is deeply in love with Helena. However, Helena thinks she is mocking him. This shows that the love potion creates humour and entertainment for Puck, who is amused by the chaos. d) This shows that Demetrius is not really in love with Helena. He is only pretending to be in love with her. This creates happiness because it entertains Demetrius and Lysander. e) This shows us that Demetrius is now deeply in love with Helena, and ‘only’ Helena. She is also in love with him, so the love potion has created happiness for these two people.

8. Which statement is correct? (1) a) The love potion does not change anything. b) The love potion does not cause any confusion. c) The love potion causes Hermia to fall in love with Lysander. d) The love potion causes Titania to fall in love with Bottom. e) The love potion causes Titania to fall in love with Oberon.

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9. Which paragraph is best? (1) a) When Demetrius says, ‘my love to Hermia, melted as the snow’, it shows that his love for Hermia has faded away. He now loves Helena instead. b) When Demetrius says, ‘my love to Hermia, melted as the snow’, it shows that his love for Hermia has faded away. By comparing his love for Hermia to snow, he shows that he now feels coldly towards Hermia because snow is cold. c) When Demetrius says, ‘my love to Hermia, melted as the snow’, it shows that his love for Hermia has faded away. By comparing his love for Hermia to snow, he shows that his love for Hermia was not that lasting, because snow does not last long. d) When Demetrius says, ‘my love to Hermia, melted as the snow’, it shows that he has been brainwashed by the love potion. Actually, he really does love Hermia, and he doesn’t like Helena.

10. This is what Oberon says about the love potion: Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once: The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again Ere the leviathan can swim a league. Which word or phrase tells us that the love potion can make people act irrationally? (1) a) The juice of it b) Next live creature c) Madly dote d) Sleeping eyelids e) Fetch me

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 17

Mastery Content:

• Each paragraph of the essay should be on a separate topic • Each paragraph should be well structured • The best paragraphs are clear and have a lot of detail • The best responses have quality and quantity

Do Now: All the words below describe the love potion.

Sort them into two categories:

1. words that describe the potion as negative

2. words that describe the potion as positive

conflict captivating confusion dangerous chaos powerful trickery fickle magical romantic entertaining amusing bewitching

Show the love potion as negative Show the love potion as positive

Extension: Which three words will you use in your essay?

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Today we will begin preparing for your assessment on ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. The assessment will be on the love potion.

Here is your assessment question: Is the love potion good or bad?

Throughout the term, we have been collecting the most important quotations from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in the Quotation Hunter.

This will be a useful document to help us revise.

You will not be able to take this resource into the assessment with you.

This is what your assessment will look like:

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Let’s look at your assessment in more detail.

The question is at the top of the page.

When you are writing your essay, remember what the question is!

These bullet points tell you some things you should write about. They also tell you which scenes you can find in the play.

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This is a list of key words you might want to use in your essay. You must make sure you spell ALL of these words correctly!

You will be marked on how accurate your writing is, so read through your essay carefully and correct any mistakes you find.

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Together, let’s look at how you might tackle the first bullet point.

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Once you have decided which quotations you will use to show that the love potion is either good or bad, you must think about how to structure your paragraph.

Here is how you can structure a paragraph:

1. Write a topic sentence.

2. Introduce and provide an appropriate quotation.

3. Explain what this quotation reveals about the character who is speaking or who they are speaking about.

4. Comment on whether it shows the love potion in a negative or positive light.

5. Explore how an audience would react to this – is it meant to be funny, shocking, surprising, ridiculous…?

Let’s practice writing an analytical paragraph.

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Main task: Write an analytical paragraph to answer the question:

How has the love potion changed the way Demetrius behaves?

You can structure your answer in this way:

1. Write your topic sentence. 2. Introduce and provide the quotation from the passage. 3. Explain what the quotation shows us about how the love potion has changed the way Demetrius behaves.

Sentence starters:

introduce the quotation explain the quotation

• This can be seen in the • This suggests that… quotation… • This conveys the sense • This is shown when he says… that… • We see this when Demetrius • This gives the impression says… that…

Your paragraph:

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❑ Check 1: Does Check 2: Does Check 3: Do all Check 4: Have you every sentence every sentence names start with spelt names start with a end with a full a capital letter? correctly? e.g. capital letter? stop? Dickens

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Extra writing space:

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Here are one student’s first two paragraphs.

Task: Write down at least 3 things you like about these paragraphs that you would like to imitate in your essay.

Oberon introduces the love potion in Act 2, Scene 1. The potion comes from

a flower. The flower was originally white, but after it was struck with Cupid’s (the God of Love) bow, it was transformed and is ‘now purple with love’s wound.’ The description of the flower suggests that it has been injured by

love. This highlights the power of love to change something forever and take away innocence. The actual potion is made from the juice of a white and purple flower. If the potion is rubbed on the eyelids of someone sleeping, it will make them fall in love with the first person they see when waking.

It is Oberon who describes the potion to us. However, he doesn’t want to use the potion to make someone fall in love with him. He wants to use the love potion to trick Titania so that he can distract her and steal away the Indian boy he so desperately wants. He doesn’t want to use the potion for good. He wants to humiliate Titania: “Wake when some vile thing is near.” This highlights how the potion is flawed because the perpetrator has very little control over whom the ‘victim’ sees first. This is amusing for Oberon because this is exactly what he is hoping for, but it also hints at the trouble the potion might cause

later in the play.

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✓ Today, we have looked at the assessment.

✓ We have also looked at how to structure a good analytical paragraph.

In the next lesson, we will look at how to write a good introduction and conclusion to an essay.

Exit Quiz

Which of the following explanations best support the topic sentence and quotation?

The love potion is destructive because it causes Helena and Hermia to fight despite being old friends. In Act 3, Scene 2, Hermia calls Helena: “You thief of love!”

a) This shows that Hermia thinks Helena is in love with Lysander.

b) Hermia insults Helena by calling her a thief because she thinks that Helena has stolen Lysander from her.

c) The potion is a bad thing because the women fight.

d) This shows that Helena is a thief of love.

e) This shows the love potion is destructive.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lesson 18

Mastery Content:

• How to structure an introduction • How to redraft and edit • How to structure a conclusion

Do Now: Write one sentence that gives general information about Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

2,500 years Shakespeare famous ago comedy

Elizabethan Athens Well regarded

regarded izabethan ______

Extension: Add one more sentence that shows when the play was written.

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In today’s lesson we will learn how to write an introduction and conclusion. The top tips that apply to both are to remember to:

✓ Be brief

✓ Stay focused on your topic

Introduction

To write a successful introduction you need to:

1. Give a bit of information about the play.

2. Introduce the idea of the love potion and say why it is important.

3. State that there is a difference in opinion about whether the potion is good or bad.

4. Describe how you will structure your essay and what aspects of the play you will analyse.

Task: Write an introduction to the essay using the paragraph starter below.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. The story of the play is set 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece. The story focuses on…….

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Conclusion You might want to use the bullet In your conclusion you should: points on ✓ Make a final judgment about the impact of the the assessment love potion on the characters in the play to remind you of the ✓ Say whether you think it is a force for good or bad and why content in ✓ Think about why Shakespeare has included the love potion the bulk of your essay. ✓ Comment on the final impact on an audience

Task: Write a conclusion to the essay. This should be between 3-5 sentences long.

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Exit Quiz

Which statements would be appropriate for the first line of a conclusion?

a) In conclusion, I think the love potion is a negative force in the play.

b) I loved reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream and think Shakespeare is a clever man.

c) After weighing up all the evidence, I think the potion can be viewed as both good and bad.

d) I didn’t like the love potion because it just made the whole play totally confusing.

e) Overall, the potion is important in this play as it creates comedy for the audience.

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Your assessment will take place next lesson.

Make sure you:

✓ Prepare and revise

✓ Read and re-read the scenes that are suggested by the bullet points on the assessment

✓ Have your copy of the play

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Mastery Quiz Reteach Sheets

Over the next few pages you will find the reteach sheets for each fortnightly Mastery quiz.

Once you have completed and marked a quiz, check these sheets to improve your knowledge and understanding of the ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ unit.

Complete the tasks for any questions that you got incorrect. Fortnightly Quiz 1: re-teach

If you got question 4 incorrect, re-read this passage and attempt the question again

Shakespeare would also have learnt a lot about ancient Greece and Rome when he was at school. The ancient Greeks and Romans lived about two thousand years before Shakespeare was even born. The Elizabethans really admired the ancient Greeks and Romans, even though they lived such a long time ago. The Elizabethans made their children learn about the ancient Greeks and Romans in school.

In ancient Greece, women were generally not educated and were expected to obey men. Society was very ordered and there were very harsh punishments for people who broke the rules. They put some criminals in a bronze statue of a bull and light a fire underneath the statue so that the person burned to death!

Which statements about ancient Athens and Elizabethan London are correct? (3) a) Life in ancient Athens was cultural and ordered. b) Rich people and poor people were treated equally in ancient Athens and Shakespeare’s London. c) Shakespeare lived in ancient Athens. d) Shakespeare lived hundreds of years after ancient Athens. e) There were tough punishments for criminals in ancient Athens.

If you got question 8 incorrect, read this passage then write the correct name of the character next to the description.

In the opening of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, we are introduced to King Theseus of Athens and Hippolyta, the fierce queen of the Amazons. The whole city is preparing for the celebration of their marriage. However, one man is too furious with his daughter to celebrate. His name is Egeus. His daughter, Hermia, is in love with a man called Lysander. Unfortunately, Egeus does not want his daughter to marry Lysander. Instead, Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. Egeus asks King Theseus for his help to persuade his daughter to obey him. a) …………………… is in love with Lysander. b) …………………… is the King of Athens.

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If you got both answers correct, write a detailed answer to this question: Why might you feel sympathy for young Athenian women like Hermia? ______

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Fortnightly Quiz 2: re-teach

If you got question 2 incorrect, re-read this passage. Summarise what Egeus says in three sentences. EGEUS Full of vexation come I, with complaint vexation – anger, frustration Against my child, my daughter Hermia. Stand forth Demetrius!– My noble lord, This man hath my consent to marry her. consent – permission And, my gracious duke, Be it so she will not here, before your grace, Be it so – if; before – in front of Consent to marry with Demetrius, Consent – agree I beg the ancient privilege of Athens; ancient privilege – the traditional As she is mine, I may dispose of her; law of Athens Which shall be either to this gentleman dispose – get rid of Or to her death, according to our law.

If you got question 6 incorrect, look at how the key words have been used correctly then re-write the incorrect sentences. Key Word Definition Correct example in a situation in which you could Oliver was vulnerable to the vulnerable be easily harmed. crimes of his society. We feel sympathy for Oliver due malicious meant to hurt or upset someone. to the malicious words that Noah speaks to him. a serious disagreement, battle or Nancy struggles with the conflict struggle between two sides or conflict between Bill Sikes and ideas. Oliver. Rewrite these sentences so that the key words are used correctly: 1) The audience feels sympathy for Hermia because the laws of her society are vulnerable towards her.

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2) The audience feels sympathy for Hermia because of her malicious actions.

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3. The audience feels sympathy for Hermia because conflict

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If you got all these answers correct, write an answer to this question: Which conflict do you think is the most serious so far in the play and why?

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Fortnightly Quiz 3: re-teach

If you got question 3 incorrect, re-read this passage and attempt the question again OBERON Having once this juice, I'll watch Titania when she is asleep, liquor – strong liquid And drop the liquor of it in her eyes. The next thing then she waking looks upon, busy - mischievous Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, pursue - follow On meddling monkey, or on busy ape, She shall pursue it with the soul of love.

Which statements about the start of Act 2 are correct? (2) a) Oberon wants to use the love potion on Puck. b) Puck is Titania’s servant. c) Oberon wants to make Titania jealous of him. d) The love potion can make people fall in love. e) Oberon wants to use the love potion on Titania.

If you got questions 4 or 5 incorrect, re-read this passage. Write three sentences, summarising how Helena and Demetrius feel about each other. DEMETRIUS Do I entice you? do I speak you fair? entice – persuading someone by Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth offering them something Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you? pleasant. HELENA And even for that do I love you the more. I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike fawn – being very friendly me, spurn – refuse to accept Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave, something Unworthy as I am, to follow you. What worser place can I beg in your love,-- And yet a place of high respect with me,-- Than to be used as you use your dog? DEMETRIUS Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit; For I am sick when I do look on thee. HELENA And I am sick when I look not on you.

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If you got all these answers correct, write an answer to this question: Oberon is right to use the love potion on Titania. Do you agree? Explain your answer.

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Fortnightly Quiz 4: re-teach

If you got question 1 or 2 incorrect, re-read this summary of the end of the play and attempt the questions again Oberon saw the chaos the love potion has caused for the four lovers and shook his head. This is not what he wanted to happen! He called Puck over and told him to lead them all far from each other and make them fall asleep. Puck did this, and then used a remedy to lift the love potion from Lysander’s eyes.

Theseus and Egeus were walking through the forest. They found the lovers asleep on the ground and demanded to know what had happened. Egeus saw Hermia and Lysander, and demanded that they be killed for running away from Athens. But Demetrius did not love Hermia any more. He declared his love for Helena. The king saw that they were in love, and allowed the two couples to be married on the same day as he and Hippolyta.

1. Which statements about the end of the play are correct? (2) a) After he had the love potion removed, Demetrius fell back in love with Hermia. b) Demetrius is still under the influence of the love potion. c) Egeus has forgiven his daughter Hermia, and will let her marry Lysander. d) The phrase ‘melted like snow’ proves that the play takes place in summer. e) Demetrius is in love with Helena.

If you got question 7 or 9 incorrect, re-read this passage. In three sentences, summarise what how Demetrius feels towards Helena and Hermia at the end of the play. DEMETRIUS …my love to Hermia, Melted as the snow, seems to me now idle gaud – worthless plaything As the remembrance of an idle gaud Which in my childhood I did dote upon; dote – to love someone very much And all the faith, the virtue of my heart, virtue - power

The object and the pleasure of mine eye,

Is only Helena. To her, my lord, loathe - hate Was I betroth'd ere I saw Hermia: bethroth’d – promise of marriage

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But, like in sickness, did I loathe this food; ere - before But, as in health, come to my natural taste, like a sickness – as though I were sick Now I do wish it, love it, long for it, come - returned And will for evermore be true to it.

If you got both answers correct, write an answer to this question: Does the play have a happy ending? Explain your opinion in detail.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Homework tasks

Here are some options for homework tasks for each of the lessons in this unit of work.

You do not need to use all of these tasks and you do not need to set homework every lesson.

Please refer to your school and department homework policy when setting and marking homework tasks.

Research: Find out more about Shakespeare’s family, including his wife and 1 children. Creative writing: Create a family tree for William Shakespeare. Research: Find out more about Metamorphoses and some of its stories. 2 Creative writing: Write your own myth about a transformation. Extension: Compare life in Elizabethan England to life today. Research: Find out about the Lord Chamberlain’s Men – the theatre group 3 Shakespeare wrote and acted in. Creative writing: Write about your first day as a gong farmer! Extension: Write two factual paragraphs on life in Classical Athens. Research: Find out more about Classical Athens and Ancient Greece. 4 Creative writing: Write about a typical day in the life of someone living in Classical Athens – similar to the story of the groundling in Elizabethan London. Research: Theseus was a character in Classical Greek mythology. Find out who he was and what he did. 5 Creative writing: Imagine you are an agony aunt. Hermia has written to you telling of her terrible situation. Write back to her offering advice on what she could do. Extension: ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ – can you find examples of films, TV shows or songs where this is the case? Do any of the films have anything in common? Do any of the songs or TV shows have anything in common? 6 Research: Many young people elope to Gretna Green in Scotland every year. Find out why this is. Creative writing: ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ – use this line as a part of a chorus in a love song! Extension: At the beginning of the play, Theseus and Hippolyta are about to get married. Read Act 1, lines 1-20 and research their relationship. Do you think their marriage will be entirely happy or will it more complicated? Find arguments for both ideas. 7 Research: In this lesson, the four lovers end up in the forest. Many different directors have created the forest on stage in different ways. Find an example and explain why you think they would be effective for an audience.

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Creative writing: We have seen how desperate Helena is. Imagine Demetrius is talking to Hermia. What might he say to convince her to go out with him? Extension: In lesson, we wrote our own paragraph about one character. Write two more paragraphs about different characters’ attitudes toward love. 8 Research: Cupid is a popular character in mythology. Find out more about who he is, and the stories he has played a part in. Creative writing: ‘Love is blind’ – use this as the final line in a ballad (love poem) about two lovers who make a surprising couple. Extension: Many cultures have traditions for midsummer – why is this such an interesting and special time? Find out more about different cultural traditions, and explain why you think they are so important. 9 Research: Find out more about the Cottingley Fairies – what do you think happened? Creative writing: Continue the dialogue between Oberon and Titania. Extension: Plays often contain stage directions to tell actors how to perform certain lines. Add in stage directions to Act 2, Scene 2, lines 102-134 to make it clear how actors should deliver this scene. Teacher to copy extract. Research: Many directors have portrayed Act 2, Scene 2, lines 102-134 10 between Lysander and Helena in a range of different ways. Find examples of the play on YouTube, and see how other performers act this scene. Creative writing: Imagine you are Helena. Write a diary entry describing your confusion and anger. Extension: There have been many conflicts in this play. What are they? Write two paragraphs explaining which you think is the most irresolvable and distressing conflict in the play. Research: Many stories have used a magical love potion in some way. Find 11 out some more stories which involve a love potion, and what problems love potions can cause in a relationship. Creative writing: Hermia has been discarded by Lysander. Imagine you are Hermia. Write a letter to Lysander that tries to win him back. You may want to remind him of why you ran to the forest in the first place. Extension: You have looked at the impact the love potion has had on one relationship. Write about how it has had an impact on different relationships in the play. Research: Mistaken identity is a common theme in Shakespeare’s plays. Research the play Twelfth Night and compare how mistaken identity is used 12 in comparison with A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Creative writing: Hermia and Helena have had a terrible falling out. Imagine they go to see a relationship expert who will help them to become friends again. Write a script which shows how they discuss their problems, and eventually become friends again.

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